This is an analysis of the poem Die Korybanten that begins with:
Betäubendes Erzgerassel,
Und sprühendes Feuergeprassel,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa XXXXXX XaXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001000 1101000 11011100 1100100 11011 111011110 11110100 101000 0100100 1101111100 10001010 111111010 110101100 11011110 100110110 1101100 11110110 11011100 1111001 100100 11110100 11110100 11110010 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines uber, rme are repeated).
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- summary of Die Korybanten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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