This is an analysis of the poem Ghasel that begins with:

Du, schöne Stunde, warst mir hold, so hold, wie keine noch,
Ich seh dein Angesicht erglühn im Rosenscheine noch;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111111111 111100111001 1111010111110100 11001111111 011111111111111110 101101101011 1110110100101 1110111111 1111011111110 1101111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 581
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; noch, und are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines noch is repeated).

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  • summary of Ghasel;
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  • history of its creation;
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