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

Es ist ein Land voll träumerischem Trug,
Auf das die Freiheit im Vorüberflug...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXbXcXXXXXXXcXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXdeedXXXaXXXaffXccXXabXXXXXXXXXaXXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 72,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110001 111111100 1001010101 1111010101 10111100 1110010110 1111010010 1101110001 11101111 111101110 11110101110 110110111100 0101111100 11110101100 111101100 111111101 1111111111 10111101100 100111100 11010101 11011011111 10001111 1011010111 10111010 1101111110 11101101000 111010110000 11011000 10111011000 01010111010 1011111111101 111110110 111111100 111111101 111111101 111111111 111001001 1100001101 1111111100 11111101010 1111100110 11111111 111011111 11100011 1111110110 11111101 1111111101 11111101 11111101100 110010111 110111001 11110101100 11010110 100110011 1111101110 1111110111 111011101 111011111 1111111100 1111110100 11111101 1111010101 11101111110 111101110 110111111 1101100111 111111110100 111100011 110001111100 11111001000 1110111100 1110000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2996
  • Average number of words per stanza: 541
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; das, die, und are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, wo, als are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rte is repeated).

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