This is an analysis of the poem Reiterlied that begins with:
Wir streifen durchs Leben im schnellen Zug,
Ohne Rast wie die stürmische Welle;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa XXXXbb XbXXXX XXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101101101 111111 110111100 11011111 111111011 11111101101 11010111 11111111 11011000 11111111 1111111101 1010101111 1101011001 011110010 1111111101 110111110100 11011111111 111111001 110100111 11011001 101110111 11011001 1101011110 1101100111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Reiterlied;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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