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

Grau düstre Felsen sah ich trotzig ragen
Aus eines Tales stillen Finsternissen,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXaXbXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXcaXXXXXXaXXXXdXXXdXXXXaXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111010 1101101000 1101110111100 111111110100 111001 0100101101 1100111100 110011101 110100011 101011111 1101111110 110011100 11011001 111010101 1110011101 11111101010 110101001 111101100 100111100 1111010100100 101111011 100101000 110110101 111111000 111111010 1111100 101001011 110101111101 1001111100 1111111 1111011110 110101111 110111000 1111000100 111011111 1110001101 1001110011 1110011000 110111111 1111001000 1101111101 10011101000 110111010 11111111010 110111101 1101110100 1101101110 11000111100 1111110001 1111111000 1110011101 0111011110 1101011101 10001101100 1101100111 1101011100 1111110100 11011101 111111110101 0101001001 111100101 1110010010 1011110101 11101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2665
  • Average number of words per stanza: 447
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • 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; kein, der are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words kein, bald are repeated.

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  • summary of Die Marionetten;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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