This is an analysis of the poem Die Asketen that begins with:
O spottet nicht der traurigen Asketen,
Daß sie den Leib mit scharfen Leiden plagen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011100100 111111111101010 1110001100 1101100100 1101110101 11100100010 1111101100 11001101010 110111100 11111101001 1111111001010 111111111000 110100010 11100110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, sie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.
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