This is an analysis of the poem Der Indianerzug that begins with:
Wehklage hallt am Susquehannaufer,
Der Wandrer fühlt sie tief sein Herz durchschneiden;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXXXXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110000 1101111111100 11110100010 10011111010 111101010 110111110101 11110101010 1101110101 11011111 1101011001 1101111100 111101100 1111111111 1111101111010 111101111100 1111111110 11111100100 10011111100 11011101100 1111100110 1111111010 1111110100 11011101110 11110101100 111101101 111101110 11111101 1100010101 111111101000 111101011 111100111110 11111100 111101110 11111110011 111101100 0101011101 11011101100 11111111010 110111000 101111111 111110001110 100111110 11001101000 1101011110 1100111010 1111100100 11110011000 11011110 1101111110000 1101011101 1111000101010 111110110 111111100 111111110100 1111111010 1101010010 11011101010 11111110 11111111110 1101010111 1111011100 111100100 111111101 1101010100 111110110 110111011 1101111010 111110111 111111111 111100100 11111111100 101110100 1101110110 10111101011 10010111 111111111000 111101111110 1111111111001 1111110100 1110011101 100111100 11110100100 110110111101 1110101100 1010111101010 11111111001 1101000100 11111111110 1101101000 10111101 11101100110 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 92
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; weiter, das, wir, den, wo, von, die, zur, der, ste are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words stets, den, der, die, da are repeated.
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