This is an analysis of the poem Der Greis that begins with:
Durch Blüten winket der Abendstern,
Ein Lüftchen spielt im Gezweige;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101100 111110 111011011 110111 11010111101 111110 111011 111000 11010110 110110 1011110101 1101110 1111100 11111 1111011101 110100 1111100 1101010 11111110 111110 11111111 1101110 10100111 110110100 11111111 1101010 110101 11111 01111100 1111100 111011 1011100 11011110 111000 11111110 101010100 110110101 111000 1111011 0101100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, die are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, das are repeated.
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- summary of Der Greis;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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