This is an analysis of the poem Der Postillion that begins with:
Lieblich war die Maiennacht,
Silberwölklein flogen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX cXXa XXXX XbdX aXaX dXXX edeX XXXX XXXX abXb cXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110 10010 111010 101000 1010111 101100 1011100 1111 11111 111100 111100 11100 101111 1111 1001100 11101 1011100 11110 111110 111100 1110101 11110 111100 10111100 1111101 11100 1101100 11110 10011 111010 1110100 111010 1001100 11110 1110101 10101 1011101 10111 111101 11110 10110111 11110 111100 01110 1110010 111101 1011111 11100 10110101 111010 110100 110110 1110101 110 1101100 10101 1110101 11110 111100 101010 1011111 111101 111111 10111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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.
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- summary of Der Postillion;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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