This is an analysis of the poem Das Tote Glück that begins with:
Leis umtauscht von Himmelsquellen,
Süße Sehnsucht in der Brust,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011000 1110011 11111000 110101 1111110 1000110 11101100 111111 101011 111110001 111110001 1011111 1111111 1010101 1111011 1110100 11101000 1000110 10111000 1010010 1100110 110111 1111111 101100 1011110 1110011 01111100 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, mit are repeated.
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