This is an analysis of the poem Der Schifferknecht that begins with:
Am Boden auf dem Rohrgeflecht,
Vom harten Glück verstoßen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXX bXbX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 110110 1111100 11110110 01111111 11110 11101100 11100 11111111 1111100 11010101 101000 11110111 010101 10011100 110100 11011100 110100 111100 11001 11110111 101110 11111 1101010 1111100 110101 1011110100 111110 1101111 111110 11110101 1101100 01111110 1101000 1101111100 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; und, nicht are repeated.
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- summary of Der Schifferknecht;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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