This is an analysis of the poem Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy that begins with:

That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision
I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdebfXghaaad abiceiXbcijbiddhg fXbecfjXbXkbgbe hfblXii giibemX XbngbiXdniXbigeaiiebkbabhdoa bleecmblX aleeX ad ae idad oaib Xd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,17,15,7,7,28,9,5,2,2,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101100101010 111001001010010 1001110011111 0101001101101 11101001111010 11101010010 11011101000010 011011111001000 10110010011110 010110110111000 10010010101110 11101101011101 10010010100111010 1110011110 11011010001001 1001100100111 01110010100 10110100100100 11010110111110 0101010111011 1110101110110111 10111111010010 00110010110110001 10101001001000100 10100010010010110 1010011010111 100111111011001 110110110101010 100111010101001010 1010111001010 11010010100 11111 010101110010110 11011011010 011101000 0101110100101 101110111001 100001011101010 01010100110010 011010000011 1101011111 1101 10101101010010 010110010100 11101011111 1110010001 10111101110 100100111101 1001001111 101010110 11010101 10111010 0111010 111110010 11000101001111 10111011101 110101110010 0101110101010 01011010110110010 111011101 11111010111 0100011010010 01001101101 0100011010010 1101101 01010010 010101011010 110101010 10101011011 110101011001000 10101 110111001010 00101000010110 0101011110 1111011011 01001110101 110011010101 01010100 110101011101010 10100100101001 0111010101 10101011 101100100101 01011110 0101100101 110011011110 111010101101 01010011 110101111 0010110110 1010100101 10101011001001 11010101 1010101110 100101111 1010011011001 101100 101111101 0100100111 1110110100011 0100010100110 10100101100011010 110110010 111010110 011101000101 110011100101 101101001011011 1110100111010 00101011111 01110101101001 111111 010011010010 1111011 01001011 0101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 437
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, the are repeated.

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

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