This is an analysis of the poem Der Maskenball that begins with:
Wirres Durcheinanderwallen
In den lichten Säulenhallen....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXbXXXXXXXXXXX XXaXcXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXd XXXX XXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbdXXXaXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,40,4,38,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100000 01101000 110011 1110110 11110 1110101 1111100 11111 111001 1011100 1011000 110111 10110 11110 101111101 11101000 1010101 111110 11101000 1110011 1110110 1100101 1001001 1101100 1110001 1111100 1101100 111010 111011 111010 1111000 11110 1111111010 11100100 1110 111011 1111101 11101100 1110001 1110100 10111110 1001000 101111 101111 1110011 1111100 11101100 1111110 111110 1011111100 1111100 1111100 1101110 1111110 1011111 111101 1100100 110100 1110110 101111 101111 10100 1010101 1101110 0110001 10111010 11101100 10101100 1000111110 10011010 1100100 1110111 10101010 1011011111 1110100 1101101 111010 111101100 11011 111100 1110101 1011100 1011101 1010101 11001100 1110101 1101111000 1110001 1111111 10001110 1111110 111011 11111000 1011101 10101000 110111 1011111010 01101100 10011110 11101010 1010001 101110 101111 110010 10111010 10110010 0110110 1111100 011101 1010110 11100110 011100 0110101 1110000
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 848
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 114
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; und, der, ich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wird, wo, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ume is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Der Maskenball;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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