This is an analysis of the poem Zwei Polen that begins with:

Hippolyt
Schon sieben Jahre treibst du...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXXXaXXXXXbXXXXbXcXdXXXXXXXXXXX X XXXbXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXdbXXXXXXX X XbXXcXXX X cXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXX X XXXXXXXdXXXXcXcXXXXX X XXXX X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,32,1,32,1,8,1,8,1,20,1,20,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 110110 110010 110100 1110110 111101 111101 110101 110101 111111 010100 10111 101110 1101100 010100 1111010 010110 110111 1100010 111110 111000 1111010 11100 111110 0101111 100101 11110010 1111010 111000 11001 11001 1101010 11011 100 11101 1111100 1111110 1011010 1011110 10011 1110110 11011 11111110 010010 1111010 1111100 111100 1011110 1111110 11110 1101000 11100 110100 11111 111110 111100 1111 1111110 1011111110 11111110 111011 1100010 101111111 100010 111101 101100 100 11100 1100010 110100 1101000 1100101 1101000 1010111 1001100 100 11110 111100 110111 11001 111000 1111 111110 110101 100 11110 110100 11111001 111101 11110 100101 0100010 11110 111101 1110 111110 111101 111111 11111110 111100 111110 0101100 100111 111111100 1001100 100 111110 110111110 111100 111110 11111110 111011 111000 110110 111001 111001 110101 010100 1111110 101111 1111010 111101 110101 111110 111111110 0100010 100 110111 110001 1011011 110110 100 111110 111110 11011 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 213
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, die are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nge is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase den connects the lines.

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