This is an analysis of the poem Der Kriegslustige Waffenschmied that begins with:
Spritze Funken, Säbelklinge,
Werde meinen Hammerschlägen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 110100 11001010 1111101 11111000 1101000 10111010 10111010 1111010 1010111 1101110 11111000 1111000 1100110 1010111 1111000 111111100 111111 111011111 11111100 111110 111111 1111011 11101010 10101000 1111010 1101000 10001010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; der is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word weil is repeated.
The author used the same word friede 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 stet is repeated).
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