This is an analysis of the poem Der Raubschütz that begins with:
Der alte Müller Jakob sitzt
Allein beim Glase Wein....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabb XbXcXX XXXXcX XXXXbX bXbXXX XXXXXX bXXXXX cbXbXX XXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 10111 10001101 110001 1111111 11010111 1111101 011111 1111101 110111 1110010 11110101 11110110 111101 110111110 1111010 10010111 111101111 111100 1111110 1110111 111101 111111 11111001 111111 11011 11110101 111101 10010110 11110100 1111001110 11100 1101111 1111 1111101 11010101 1111111101 111111 1111111 1111 1111100010 1111101 11111001 110101 11110110 110001 11011101 10101111 11111110 11110 111011 110101 1101100 1101111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sein, der are repeated.
The author used the same words der, sie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Der Raubschütz;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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