This is an analysis of the poem Der Unbeständige that begins with:
Daß ich dies und das beginne,
Heute grad und morgen quer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXbX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 111101 1011111 101111 1111110 0110001 10111000 111001 1111100 1110000 10101010 1100100 1111110 1101011 10110110 100110 1111100 1110011 1110111 1010110 10111010 011110 111011010 1011100 10101000 100101 11101100 1100111 11101100 1100101 01101010 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word heute at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Der Unbeständige;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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