This is an analysis of the poem Die Seejungfrauen that begins with:
Freundlich wehn die Abendwinde,
Schimmern Mond und Sterne;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXX bXXX aXXX cXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1011100 10111 1111111 11111 1111100 10111 1111111010 11101 10111110 10001 11101110 10010 111110 11110 11101000 101110 11111000 111000 1111100 100010 1011111 11111 111100001 11100 1111100 11110 1111010 111000 111011 11000 1110111 1100 1110010 101100 111111000 101010 11101010 1011 11101010 101010 1011101 100100 1001101 10000
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sehen connects the lines.
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- summary of Die Seejungfrauen;
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