This is an analysis of the poem König Und Dichter that begins with:
Stolz flammt ein König dort auf erhabnem Thron,
Befehl den Völkern winkt in die Fernen er,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXaX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111001 1011101100 11111110 1011011110 110111111 1101111111 01101101 1111011 111111000 11111111 11101001 1011010101 01110111001 101101111 110011101 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines weiter is repeated).
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