This is an analysis of the poem Waldgang that begins with:
Ich ging an deiner Seite
In einem Buchenhaine;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 010100 11010 110110 11011 11111110 11011 1111100 1111110 0101000 110110 1000100 111100 11011 1101110 111101 111110 1101100 111101 1101000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, des are repeated.
The author used the same word und at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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