This is an analysis of the poem Der Gute Gesell that begins with:
Des Menschengeschlechts uralter Gefährte,
Der nie von seiner Seite gewichen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXbXXX cAXXdXdXXX AXaXXXeXXXXXbXXXXfaXXXXXaXaXXXXXXXXcXeXXfXX XXXXXXXXXXXXa aXcXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,10,43,13,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001001 111101100 111011000 1010011000 111101101 1011011110 11001100 1011010010 011001101 111110 111100111101 111100111 11111110 110111010 101110110 111011 1110111010 1100110010 110110100 1101001101 1111001000 111010010 110011100 1011010000 11011101 1101011010 11011110 110110111 110001111010 011111110 11011110100 1111110010 1101110010 111101111001 1101111110 11011110 1110000100 110111110 100110011 111111101110 1111110110010 11111111 111110011 11111111110 110011001 110111010 111101100 110011110 011101011 1111111100 1111100110 111101100 1101111010 1111110 111100001000 1101011010 111011000 100001100 111101011100 1101111 110101100 11100110 1111111111 11111001000 011101000 11111000 1111011000 110111110 11110011 111011110 1111011010 111001100 11110001 111011100 110101001 1101111010 100101011 111001100 011110000 110101010 10111100 1110111101 101101100 1001111000 101101001 101101100 11011110 1101010110 10011010 111110110 010101010 11011110 101101111 111111110 111101011 111110110 110101011 0111001000 1011010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 766
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; der, kein, und, er, sein are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words kein, der, und, wenn, es are repeated.
The author used the same word kein at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gesell is repeated).
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- summary of Der Gute Gesell;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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