Lass Mich Ziehn by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Lass Mich Ziehn that begins with:

Ich bin kein Freund von Sterbensehen;
Wenn deine Liebe soll vergehen,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa XXbX XXXX XXcc XXXX XXbX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111000 1111100 111111010 1111011011 10110110 110001100 11111101 11111110 011111100 111111010 11111101 1110111 011111110 110111010 10111101 11011101 1111111110 111111100 01111111 1111011 111101110 111101100 1111111 10110111 11111101 11111 11111111 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; es is repeated.

    The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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