This is an analysis of the poem Wanderung Im Gebirge that begins with:

Erinnerung
Du warst mir ein gar trauter, lieber...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXb X XXXX XXcd e XXXX X XfXf XXXg XgXg X aXXX XXXX X aXXX XXXX hXXX XfXf X XdXd XXXX XXXh XfXX ijiX XXhh X XjXX XXXX aXXX XXhX XXXX X XXXX XXXX eXeX XXhX XXXX f XXXX XXcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,4,1,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000 011111010 101011 11101110 1111011 10 11010101 11110101 11110001 11110100 11111100 1101110 1100111 11010011 11 111111 1111100 111111 1110111 110 11010101 10111111 1110101 11101101 1110111 11111000 11011100 11111101 110101100 1101110 11011100 1101111 11 11111110 11010100 111111100 11110101 11011100 1110100 11110100 1110101 100 11111110 1111110 11111010 1111100 11110100 1111110101 1011001 1011011 10011110 101111101 1111110110 11011100 11000111 11011101 11000101 110111 11 110101100 1100111 101101100 11111111 10011111 01011101 1111111111 111111 101111100 1011100 11111111100 1011011 11111000 101110111 11111100 101110 110111 1101101 1110111 11101111 110101110 11101110 11011110 1111111 1100 110111010 1111111 111111010 1101000 1101111101 1011100 1111111 1101000 110101010 1101011 111011000 1101111 11010101 1111011110 10111101 11110100 11110110 1101011 11111110 111011 11 11111100 11111000 11111110110 11110100 111011110 11110101 11111010 1110011 110100011 11101111 1011111 10011111 111011010 1111111 110111110 11000111 11110101 1111011 11111100 111101 110 110101000 1111100 111011000 11110101 11111100 11011101 1100111 1101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 134
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; die, und, der are repeated.

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

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

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

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