This is an analysis of the poem Die Frivolen that begins with:
Die Zeit ist hin, wo vor den Banngewittern
Des Glaubens noch ein Bube mußte zittern....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX aa XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111000 110111110 101111111 110011100 11111101100 1101011110 110101011 1011001110 11111111111110 111101100010 1111100111 1111101101 1111011110 110100011 1111001101 010101101 101110101 11111001010 111111100 100111010 1111111111110 11101010 1111110110010 111100011110 111011111000 1100111000 1111010111010 111111000 11111001011 11110101 1111101010 10101011110 1101111100 11000111010 110011100 11001010 1110001000 1111011110 1111101100 1111111000 11011111 11111101111110 11111111110110 111111111111110 100111111 1111101101 11111111111 111111111110 1100111010 110001111110 110101100 11111001100
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 52
- 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, es, mit, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, kein are repeated.
The author used the same word sie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Die Frivolen;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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