This is an analysis of the poem Glauben. Wissen. Handeln that begins with:

Schon ist der Berge Purpurglut verglommen,
Und zitternd flieht des Tages letzter Strahl...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXXXXXcXXXXXcXXXdXXXXXXXXEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbXXXfXXXXaXXXEXXXXXgXgXXXXXXXXcXdXXXcXcXXXXhiXihXXXhXccXXXXXXXXXXXXacXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXXXXaXaXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXXXXffX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 162,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100100 1101110101 1111111100 1100110100 101111111010 110111110 11111111100 111011110 1011101010 11111101 10000011010 110110011 111101110110 1101001 1110011110 111110110 1111011101000 1111011111 1001100100 10001111 1111101100 110111110101 11011101100 1111111000 111111111 1101011110 111101101 100111111 1101110100 11011111 111111111 110001100 111010100 1111001100 11101101 1101010110 101101101 111111100 1111100110100 1111001111100100 111011001100 11110110110 11011000101110 1111001111110 1111011010110 110011101110 11010111110 10011100001 1111110100010 11111101001010 110111101100 11010110111 10000111110 1101101100011 110101111 11011100110 11011111101 0111110110 1101111001 11011101100 1101111100 11011111 111111111 110001100 1111101010 1110110100 11101010 110101100 1011011111 1101000100 1111011101 11110111 1100101010 110111001 1101111111010 1101100101 1111110001 10011011 1111101101 1110010001 1111110111 1100110101 10000111 111111000 11111001 1101111111 111011101 101011111 1111111101010 1111110 11011001110 111111010 11010110110 111110111 111011100 11101111 1111101110 1111111 110101110 11111110110 11001101010 111110111100 11100111 1100111101 111101110 111111001 110111111 101111101 1100110100 11111011 1010110001 1111110110 1111110010 110100111 11100101010 1111011101 10010111 110101011 110010101 1001101101 111010110 111001011 1110110110 110110010 111111100 1111110110 110011011 111010010 11110111100 110101000100 111111110 1111111100100 111001110 110111100 110110101 111110110 11101111 100111101 1101110111 1101010111 1101110101 111101011 111111010110 11111100 1111111010 110111011 111110111 11101111100 11010101100 010011110 1101110110 11110110100 11111011 1100100111 1111011101 1111011100 1110011101 11011111 11111100100 100011101 1011010011 11111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6976
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1209
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • 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; und, wie, die, durch, ich, in, der, wir are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wo, wie, die, und are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines he, ster are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase erwacht connects the lines.

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  • summary of Glauben. Wissen. Handeln;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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