This is an analysis of the poem Waldestrost that begins with:
Im Walde schleicht ein alter Mann,
Allein mit seinem Leid,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX bXbX XXXX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 10111101 0111100 11110100 01110110 110110 1111101 100111 11011111 11111 1110011 110111 11011111 111011 1111101 11111 11110101 010100 10111101 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, als are repeated.
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