This is an analysis of the poem Nächtliche Wanderung that begins with:
Die Nacht ist finster, schwül und bang,
Der Wind im Walde tost;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XabX XbXX XXaX XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11111 1111110 11101 1111100 111101 1110111 110101 11010101 11111 111110 010100 1011100 11111 11111101 10110 1101111 110101 11010111 11111 11110110 111110 111111 111101 11011100 11111 1111100 11011 1110100 101101 11110111 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
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