This is an analysis of the poem Prolog that begins with:
Der Winter stand ein eiserner Tyrann,
Nie lösend seine Faust, die festgeballte,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXbbXXXXXXcaXXXXXXXXddXXaXXXeXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXeeXeXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 112,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110010 111011100 110111111 1101100101 1100111110 1001111000 01111001010 11001110 1110010110 111011110 11011101100 10111111010 111111010 111101100110 1111111000 110000100 111011010 1100111000 1110011000 100110010 11111100 1100101 1100101100 111110010 1111011100 111011100 11111111010 1111001110 11110101 111010100 11010100110 111101010111100 100100110 1100010111 11011100 11101101 1110001000 10101001100 1001111 11101111 1111101000 11010111100 01111001000 11111110010 1101010101 110111111 1011110010 0111011111010 111101011111100 1111110011100 01111100 1111111101 111101 101011011 11010110 111111011 111101111 11111111101 1111110100 111111000 11111011110 111011011111 111011110 11110101111 1100011111 1101101100 1111101100 1101110111 1001010010 111011111100 1101100010 11011101100 11110110110 110101100 1111111100 11001111100 110010011 11011011111 111010110 0111011 111111110 11111110 1101010100 110101011 11110111 1101011000 110101111 1101111111 11011101100 1110010000 101111001100 1111110110 1101010001 1110100110 1101111100 11111101100 111111011101 1101110110 111111110 11000110100 11111110 1101011100 1101011000 111101110001 111001111110 11111111100 1011001101 1101100110 110111110010 111011101 1100111111100 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4647
- Average number of words per stanza: 810
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; die, und, sie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, und, der are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chern is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Prolog;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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