This is an analysis of the poem Der Offene Schrank that begins with:
Mein liebes Mütterlein war verreist,
Und kehrte nicht heim, und lag in der Grube:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010110 111111011 111101110 11011011 1111011111 1111100110100 11110001 111111110 110001001 1101011100 11011100 111110100 1111110010 111110110 11101101 11110101 1111111110 11110010 11111101110 1100001010 100111100 11111010 111111110 101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, ich, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wie is repeated.
The author used the same word ich at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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