This is an analysis of the poem Stimme Des Windes Stimme Des Regens Stimme Der Glocken Stimme Des Kindes that begins with:

Stimme des Windes
In Schlummer ist der dunkle Wald gesunken,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXX X XXXX XXXX aaX X XXXX XXXX XXX X XXXX XXbX XXX XXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,3,1,4,4,3,1,4,4,3,1,4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111 01011101100 1111111110 1101101110 1111111110 101111000 11100100110 11110010 101111000 1100110110 11111101010 1111110 1110 111011101 1101110011 11111111110 11111101111101 111101011 0110011100 1101111110 1111100101 1111101110 11010111010 1110111010 1110 11011100100 11001101010 11011101100 1111011101000 11111110 1110100110 1110111010 11111111110 110011011 1111011010 11111010 1110 1101110101 111100100 111111100 1110010010 11111110101 1101010111 111111101 1110001101 11110110010 1111010111100 11110111010 1101011100 111111110 11101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; zu, und, die are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines umen, ren, gen are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word gen at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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