This is an analysis of the poem Die Felsenplatte that begins with:
Dort am steilen Klippenhange,
Wo der Wildbach niederschäumt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XaXX aXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXc XXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1110100 1110100 1110000 1011111 1001100 100111 1011100 111001 10101000 1011101 1011100 1010100 10101000 101011 111110110 1011101 111011 101111 1110111 011100 11101010 1110100 1111101000 111100 1011110 011101 111011000 110100 11111110 10111010 11101010 101111 1101110 110111 1111100 1110100 111001 10111111 111100 101110 1110100 111000 11111100 1010001 111100010 11111101 1110101 1000001 11101100 101111 1111100 111101 1010011 1110100 1111100 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; der is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words im, und are repeated.
The author used the same words und, aus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Die Felsenplatte;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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