This is an analysis of the poem In Der Krankheit that begins with:
Nacht umschweigt mein Krankenlager;
An der morschen Diele nur...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXaXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011000 111011 1011110 1111100 1101100 11101010 11110 1010001 1110110 111100 1011111 111111 1111111110 1111100 1111110 111010 1010101 11100100 10011010 1110101 10111110 101111 1011100 101111 111101 1110110 111111110 1111101 1011111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; kein is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wird is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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