This is an analysis of the poem Waldlieder that begins with:

Am Kirchhof dort bin ich gestanden,
Wo unten still das Rätsel modert...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXa bcXX XXXX XXXXX XXcX dXdX XXXX cXcX bXXX XXcX XeXeX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXbX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX eXXX XXXa XbXX XXXX XbXX XXXXX bXXbbXXX XXbXXd XcXcXX bXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXbXXX XXXXXXXXXXbXXXXadXfXX XXXX XXeX XXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,8,6,6,8,6,4,6,21,4,4,4,5,35,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111100 11011110 111100010 111101000 1111110 111101001 1111111 110111010 11111110010 1111111 11101111 1110110 100111110 10111110 110110110 101111010 010100000 11110101 1111011 11010100 1 11110 111100 11011111 101101 11111101 11111100 11101 1101000 1101101 111101000 100101 111100 11111 1101100 111101 100110 110101 1111010 111100 1101100 110111 110101 11011 110100 111100 110011 110101 11111 1 111111101 110010 101011 1111010 11101000 1110110 11110000 11101010 1110101 11001000 111110 1011100 1111110 1111110000 1110111110 0111101010 111011 11101010 111111 101110 1 1101000 1110000 11111100 1101100 101110 111110 1111100 1101110 010101 10111 110010 1101110 100110 0100100 11110 10111 1011100 10001 010001 1110 1101110 1100110 111111010 1100 110111 111101 1101010 1111010 101100 1011010 11111 111010 1001110 110110 11100 1111100 111101010 111010 11011111 10111111 11110 0101110 1110000 1100110 111111 11111 1111010 011111100 1 110 111111 11110 111010 11110 11110 111110 11110100 11000 1111 11010 1111 1110 1011 1001 1011 10110 10011 10110010 1111001010 1011110 0110011 11111010 1111110 1101100 1011111100 1111110 110101 1100110 1111 1001101 1110111 111001 1101100 10111 1110110 10111000 110011 1111100 1110010 01101010 11101010 101110 101000 10111010 1010100 1101000 1111010 1110110 10111 1111000 1111100 10101010 10000110 110111 11101000 111111 101101 10101000 101110 1011101 1111100 1111101 111010 1 11010110 110100 1110110 11110 1111 11111 111111 1011 1111100 110111 11010000 110110 11100 111100 111011 110110 1 11011001 1111111 111111111010 11111110001 1000101111 10111111 11001011100 11101001010 1011111111 10111110010 11011111 11101011000 111011010 1100101110 11011010100 111110110 1110100101 1111110100 101101010 1001110101 10101011111 10100101110 0101111100 101010110 1000110110 1101101101 1110111100 1110010110 11101011010 11001001100 10110010010 1001111110 1111011110 1100111110 1011101011 111111100 11101101010 111101001 111111110 1101101010 1100011011 111111111011 11111100101 1 10111010 1011100 10110001 1111110 101111 111110 111110 111111 1110101 101111 1010011 1010010 1111101010 11110 110011 11101110 10110110 1111110 1011110 1111000 11111110 111011 1111101 1110110 1 11100110 11111110 110111000 1110110 1101111 11111100 11101000 111101 1110111 111011010 110111110 1110111 010101010 11111110 11101100 11001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 54
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 287
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; ihm, die are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, mahnt, was, die are repeated.

    The author used the same words das, der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chte, lle, umen, ckt, nger are repeated).

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