This is an analysis of the poem Die Botschaft that begins with:
Nach Saint-Germain zum Verkaufe
Trägt ein Häuflein Bauersleute,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 111010 111111101 1111101 10110010 1111110 0110101 1111100 1111001010 111011110 1011111000 110101 10101000 111110111110 11001110 111111110 0111001 1011010 01110010 11110000 11010110 1011001 111111100 1011110 1110100 1011100 111110100 1011011 1011010 1001100 1001110 1100010 1001100 111100 110101 11011 10111010 110110 11110100 1111100 1110111100 111111010 1000111 1010001 0111101 1011110 1110001 1011001 1101110 111111 101011 11001 1111100 1001110 10011100 11101110 111111 10101000 1111101 10111100 111111 11101100 11111 101010 11100 1111010 10101010 1010100 10101100 10111010 1111010 111110110 10011000 100111 1101100 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 76
- 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, sie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
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- summary of Die Botschaft;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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