This is an analysis of the poem Der Alte Marko that begins with:
»Klara, lebst du?« ruft Johannes
Bang mit lautem Herzenspochen;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXb aXXX cXXX XXXX XbXb XaXa cXXX XXXa XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1111101000 10111000 111000 111110001 1111100 11111111 1111010 10001010 111001 1010100 1011101 111101 1011101 1111100 111010 0111100 11111000 111110 11001010 1110101 1111101 1111111111 10111 1111110 11111011 11111110 1000111 100110 11111011 11111110 111001 111110 1011110 1101101 1111010 101111 1111100 101101 10111100 10001100 1010111 1011010 1011101 1011110 10100110 1000110 1011110 111110 11011110 11111 111111100 10111010 1110100 1101110 111100101 1100111 1111100 1100010 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; die is repeated.
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- summary of Der Alte Marko;
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