This is an analysis of the poem Ein Herbstabend that begins with:
Es weht der Wind so kühl, entlaubend rings die Äste,
Er ruft zum Wald hinein: Gut Nacht, ihr Erdengäste!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX aa XX XX XX bX XX Xb Xb XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111100111 01111011110 11111111010 1111011110 111101100010 11111111100010 111101111010 111101110110 1101011001110 1101011101110 110111100100 11111100010 1111010111111101 1111011110111 11111111111111000 1101111001100 110001111101 110011110100 11111111001 1111111111101 101110100010 1110101100010 11001101010 1101011101010 1111111111111110 1100111100100 110001111100 10010111010 101101110001 111111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, sie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word sie is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ste, geln, ren, umen are repeated).
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- summary of Ein Herbstabend;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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