This is an analysis of the poem Naturbehagen that begins with:

Der Seerab hat ein gutes Leben!
So überm Wasser hinzuschweben,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXbbXXXXaXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 11101000 11011010 100101010 11011110 110101100 1111100 1111110 1110111 1100111 1111101 10111100 11111110 11001000 110001110 111001000 11011100 11000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 632
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Naturbehagen;
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