This is an analysis of the poem Nach Süden that begins with:
Dort nach Süden zieht der Regen,
Winde brausen südenwärts,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX 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: 1111110 1101 1110101 111011 1110100 101111 1101100 1110110 111101 111100 1010101 101100 1111100 101111 10111100 111110100 11101110 1011110 11001010 111111100 111111111010 11111111 11101000 111111 1011111 101111 111110 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; s, nach, dem are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dort, und, wie, lauter are repeated.
The author used the same word dort at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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