This is an analysis of the poem Die Nächtliche Fahrt that begins with:
Zu öd und traurig selbst den Heidewinden
Sind diese winterlichen Einsamkeiten,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaaX XbbX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXd XXXb XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXdX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111000 1110001000 1111100110 11010101110 101101101110 101101101 1100110111 1100011110 11111101100 01110101010 111111101010 110111010 11110001000 111011001 110100011 111010110 1111011101 1101110001 111111010011 1100011001 111111101 1101111000 1100110100 111100111 1111100101 111011011 110111001 111011110 1101011111100 1101110110 11111111100 11011111110110 10111100 1100110000 110101001 1101111000 1101010100 1101111100010 10011111101 111110101 1111011101 1110111110 1111110000 110100111 1110111100 110111111 110111000 10100101110 101111110 1011111110 11111111000 1111111111000 1111110101 1111011001 1100110101 111111100 1111111110 1101101101 110111110 111101100 111111101000 11110110 110011101 1111111000 110111111010 1101111110 1100111100 11011111010 1111111110 111111000 11110011100 11110101000 111110111010 1111011110 10111111110 1110101100 1101111100 1101111000 1110100100 10111000010 11011111100 11111110 11111101000 11111101000 111011111 1100111100 1111010110 110111110 1111010111101 1111111 11111111 110011111101 11011101110 11011110000 1010010010 1100110110 1101110001 1101010100 1111101001 111111101 1110110111 1111101110 1101111100 1100011101 1111111010 111010010 1100111100 111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 27
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 108
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, tr, mit, ein, die, sind, nach, nicht, h, tt, ich, das are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nur, der, ich, das are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ume, che are repeated).
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