This is an analysis of the poem Der Gefangene that begins with:
Was trug er auch sein Haupt so frei, so stolz!
Wollt edler sich als seine Treiber fühlen!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX a XXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXaXXXcXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeaXXfXXdgXgXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXeXXXXXXXXXecXXXXXXXfXXXXXXXhXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,124,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111111 1101110101 11110 1111111100 11001111100 1111111100 111111110000 110101111 01010111100 11110010010 1101111100 111011011 1101111110 1001111101 111111010 11111111100 1111101111 11111111111 1111110000 11011100 1001111100 11111100 11111110 101110100 1101110010 1100011100 1101111000 1101111100 1101111101 111110111 1101100001 1101011100 1101011110 111101101 1111100101 100111100 1101111111 1111111010 1110110 111010110 110100111 1101111101 0111010101 11000011000 1011110100 1101110010 11111111100 1101111100 0111011100 111011100 1111110011010 0101011110 111110001 1101110111 1101101101 0101110010 110010101 1100100111 100101111 110101111 1001011101 11100111 11111100 01101011 1101010111 11010111100 1100010100 11011111101 11011111111 11100011010 011110110 1101111101 1101001100 110101011 11110110 1101100111 1111101111 1101110100 111111101 1111010011 11101001 1111011100 1111011110 111110111 1111011000 1111101100 111111110 10111101100 01100111100 1111001000 11011001100 111110101 0110111010 1011101 11110111100 1101111100 1111101100 1010110101 1110110101100 1111111110 110110010 11111111101 10111111000 100111110 11110110010 111101111111 111111100 1101110001 1010111001 11101111 1111110111110 111011101 111111111 11111110100 111001111110 1111011010 11101000 1111111010 1111111101 11110111110 1111110110 1111011010 1111101001 11110111 1011011101 11011111100 11011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1790
- Average number of words per stanza: 313
- Amount of lines: 127
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; die, der, ihn, er, von, hat are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nicht, von, nur, hat, sie, und are repeated.
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- summary of Der Gefangene;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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