This is an analysis of the poem Der Schiffsjunge that begins with:
Das wilde, schäumende Roß,
Gejagt von der Sporen scharfem Stoß,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXX XcaaXXXXcc XXbXXXXX XXXdXX bXcXXX XXXXXX XbXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,10,8,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 101110101 111000100 111110011 111111111 111101010 11010010 1111101001 111101111 11001011 110101001 1100100101 1101101 111111000101 110111010 11011110010100 1101111010 11101010 111101110 11101000 110111101 10001110 111001101 111101100 11110101 1101111110 11010110010 1101001001 11101101 11011000 110011000 1111110 100101101 0110011110 11111100 10100111 111100110 110101110 11010011110110 111111100 1111110110100 11110101 111100101101 111001101 1111111 11011110 1001010001 1111110 1101110110 111101010 11111100 110001110 111101000 1111101010 101010100 1011111 10101111 10101101 101111100 100011000 1011010 101111101100 110011010 10111101 101110101000 1110101100 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; die, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, den are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rmt, rmen, umen are repeated).
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- summary of Der Schiffsjunge;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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