This is an analysis of the poem Meeresstille that begins with:
Stille! - Jedes Lüftchen schweiget,
Jede Welle sank in Ruh,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110 11101 111110 111001 11111 10100 1011101 1011110 11001010 1010111 1111111010 0110100 1111101 10101101 1111101 110111 111111 1110100 1110111 1110111 1110110 101101 1111110 11110111 11011010 101101 1111111000 101011 111111 1111100 010001 1101101 11111110 1110100 1101110 111111001 1101101 1100101 111111 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; ein is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ist is repeated.
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- summary of Meeresstille;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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