This is an analysis of the poem Das Ideal that begins with:

Tief in des Waldes heiligen Schatten saß
Ich, und der Stimme, welche zu edleren...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XabX ccXX aXXX XXbX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110100101 111111100 100111000 111111101 1110111100 1111101101 110111111 101101001 11110101100 11111111101 110111100 0110110 111111001 111011100 1111110 111100100 100011111 1101011111 11101101 11010110 1111111101 1111101111 1101111 101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mich is repeated.

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