This is an analysis of the poem Wandel Der Sehnsucht that begins with:
Wie doch dünkte mir die Fahrt so lang,
O wie sehnt ich mich zurück so bang...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbXX XXXX 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: 11111111 11111111 11101010 11101010 1011101 10111111 1110100 11110001 11101110 11111111 111100100 1110111100 111111100 111111 1111101100 1000100010 111111110 10011100 110111010 101111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Wandel Der Sehnsucht;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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