This is an analysis of the poem Die Heideschenke that begins with:

Ich zog durchs weite Ungarland;
Mein Herz fand seine Freude,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX bXcd XXbX XXXX XXaX eXeX eXXX XXXX fXdX XXeX XXXX gXgX XXXX XXXX XdXd XXXX hdhX XgXX XXXd iXiX XXeX XXXX XgXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XgdX cXXX eXXX XgXX XXXX hcXX XXXX dXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100 111101 11111110 110101 1111111 1100010 11011000 11110 1110111 0101000 1111111 111110 11111101 1011110 1111101 1100100 1011100 1101000 11010100 11110100 1111110 11111010 1111111 1111010 1001011 110110 11011101 1101100 111101101111 1101100 10011100 11110111100 11111101 111110 1110010 111010 1101011 1101100 110100100 1100100 11110100 1101010 111111 110110 1101111 111110 1111111 0101000 1111001 111101 101011 11110 11111101 1111000 111100 111000 1110100 111110 1111111 1111010 1101110 110110 11110100 1110110 1111111 10111101 111011 111101 11010111 110110 11110111 111010 1110111 1111010 11100111 10110 11011111 11011 11010110 11110 11011101 111010 0111101 1111010 11010101 101101 1111111 11111 11011100 111100 1111100 11100 1111101 1111110 1110110 1101100 11010111 111100100 10110110 111100100 11001101 111000 111101 11111 11110100 11100 11111100 1110100 1111111 1101110 11111010 110110 11011011 1111001 11001110 110011 1011111 1000100 1111110 100100 0111101 101101 10110111 110101 1111100 11110 01010100 1101110 0110101 111011 1101110 10110 11111101 1111111 111101101 111011 111001010 1100100 1101101 1001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • 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; die, er, und are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, die, um, und are 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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