This is an analysis of the poem Der Nächtliche Gang that begins with:
Tiefe Nacht; - der stille Vollmond
Hebt sich jenseits von den Auen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX bXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 11101110 1110110 1110011 11011110 1110010 1110010 11101100 10111000 1000100 101111 101011 11001100 1101110 1101110 1111110 1001110 111101 11101100 1111100 1101110 1101100 100111 1100011 10100110 110110 1011110 11111101 100101 1001010 010001 10110010 11111010 1110101 1110001 1011000 0110101 11100 1011100 111101 1110100 100110 10101010 111011 11111010 11110000 10101010 01101010 10101010 10111000 10101110 1011010 1111110 11100010 11101000 11101110 101111 1111100 10101010 101111101 111110101 111110 11111010 11111000 100111 11001000 110111 11101010
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; dem is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word still is repeated.
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