This is an analysis of the poem Der Selige Abend that begins with:

Schnell versammelt um die Felsen
Haben Wolken sich und Winde,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX Xbab XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXc aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXdX XbbX XXXX XXXX XXXX dXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa eXXX bXXX acXe XXXX XXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001110 1010111 111111 1010100 10001110 1111010 111100 1111110 10101010 0110110 11101010 10001110 101111 1111100 1111000 1110010 01001010 10100110 101000100 1111101100 1011100 10010 1010110 1111011 10101010 011011 111100 1011101 1111111 1010101 11101110 1110 10111010 111111101 1111110 1101101 1011110 11101000 1110010 111100 1111110 111011111 101001000 111100 10101100 111111 101111 111010 11111001 11100110 10101110 11111010 11011010 101111101 10111010 1111010 1111101100 101111101 111111011 10111111 1011100 1011110 11100100 11100010 1011011 11111100 1111100 1010010 11111010 11111000 11011010 1101100 111101 111110110 11110000 111101 10111110 101011 1110110 11111 110011 111111100 1111111 1111010 10111 10100100 101100 11100110 101011111 11110001 10101011 111110 10001010 1011110 1110111100 11101100 101111 11111011 101111 11111111 111100 111111101 110010 1110101 0110101 11101000 1010100 11111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • 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; der, die are repeated.

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