This is an analysis of the poem Die Waldkapelle that begins with:
Der dunkle Wald umrauscht den Wiesengrund,
Gar düster liegt der graue Berg dahinter;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXcX XXXX dXXa bXXX eXef XXXX XfXX XXXX cXXX XXgX XXXg XXXX XXXX dXXX XXXX XbcX
- 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,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101100 111111100 111110111 1001101110 11111101 1001100110 111010110 101011000 111111100 111001101 1101110111 11101100 111111011101 11011110000 100111100 111111011000 111111100 11111011 1111110011 111001111101 11110111111111 110111100 1101011000 110011100 1101101101 111110110 110110111 10001111010 011011011 111110100 110101111 111111101 100111111 111001101 110101111 11010111010 1101010111 1111110100 1011000110 110111011 111111101 11010111110 1111010101 1111011010 111111111 111111100 111101111 111111100 111101110 11010100010 11111110101 11011100100 1111010110 1111110101000 011011100 1101101100 011011011 110111010 11110111100 111111110100 11110111110111 110101110 01011111101 11111011 11111111110 111111110001 1111111101 11111111101 110111100 11111101110 111110100 1101110000 1111111110 11110111010 11111011 11111111111000 1111010001 111111101 1100110101 111110111 1111011110 1111110101000 011011100 1101101100 110110111101 1011011101 1011011011 1101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; der, ha, er, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
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- summary of Die Waldkapelle;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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