This is an analysis of the poem Der Rationalist Und Der Poet that begins with:

Freund, du sitzest hier auf weichem Moose,
Ins Geruchzeug duftet dir die Rose,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101101 11110010111 11101010 11111000 1010101110 11101111 10110101 11111101 101101010 101011101 111111101 1111111 11111000 10111100 1011110 10101011 1010001010 1110001110 10111000 111010110 101111000 11101111 10111101 1111100 101101110 1111111010 1110100100 11110100 11110100 1011100100 111010110 1111110000 101101110 110111011 110111100 11111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1388
  • Average number of words per stanza: 241
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; dem is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nge is repeated).

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