This is an analysis of the poem Zweierlei Vögel that begins with:

Strichvogel Reflexion,
Zugvogel Poesie,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XbXb XXXX XaXa XXXX XbXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100100 1001 110101 11110 100111 111111 11101 110011 011111 11011 111100 111101 11101 110111 110110 101101 100101 010101 111001 1110110 01101 111101 11100 110101 111111 110000 11010 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; und is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word und is repeated.

    The author used the same word strichvogel at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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