This is an analysis of the poem Die Heidelberger Ruine that begins with:
Freundlich grünen diese Hügel,
Heimlich rauscht es durch den Hain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XbbX XXcX XdXX XccX XXXX XXXX XeeX XXcX XXXX XXcX XXXX XXdX XcXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 1011111 1011100 1110101 1111110 101011 11111 1011000 111111 11111 11110100 1010110 1111001 1110111 1110100 1010111 1111111 1111111 111110101 111111 1101010 111110 101111100 11111000 110101 101110 111010 10101 1011111 111011 101011 1011100 1110110 111111 111101 111110 1110110 1101100 11111 1010100 1101111 110101 111101 100100 110011 1011111 111111 11100 1111101 1110101 1110101 11111 11101110 101010 1011101 1111010 11110000 1101111 1100101 1000111110 1111000 11111 1111111 1010010 1110100 1101100 1010100 1011111010 11111011111 1110010 1111 1111111 10111111 1111100 101010 1010001 111110110 010100 1001101 101111110 111100 1110111 1011001 101111110 1111101 1110100 11111110 1111110 1110100 1001100 111101 11100100
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 92
- 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; sie is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.
The author used the same word auf at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ht, hl are repeated).
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