This is an analysis of the poem Die Drei that begins with:
Drei Reiter nach verlorner Schlacht,
Wie reiten sie so sacht, so sacht!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX aa XX XX bX bb XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011001 1101111111 11010111 1111111 11011111 11100111 1110111 11111111 11010110 11011101 111111011110 11011101 1110111 1111111 1111111 110111011 11110101 11111101 1111100 1111110111 1111010101 11001011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; und is repeated.
The author used the same word die at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Die Drei;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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