This is an analysis of the poem Einem Knaben that begins with:
Was trauerst du, mein schöner Junge?
Du Armer, sprich, was weinst du so?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 110111 01011101 11011101 1101010 01010101 1011101 110111010 10010100 01111101 111011 111110 11110110 11011010 11011110 110001010 111110 11111101 1011011 111111 11000101 10111100 1111111 10110111 110111 1011111101 1110101 11110111 101110 1101110 11110 11111110 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
The author used the same words du, da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau
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