This is an analysis of the poem An Das Deutsche Volk that begins with:
Wir schauten die größte germanische That, von der die Geschichte berichtet,
Das größte der Wunder, wie es nur im Traum vorahnend die Muse...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX X XXX Xa XX aXX X XXXX bXXX X XXX XX XX XaXX XXXX XXbX X XXX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,3,2,2,3,1,4,4,1,3,2,2,4,4,4,1,3,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100111110100 111101111110011100 10011111000111000110 10011001111001010 100101100111111111110 1100111111111111111100 11110011101111001100 1100011100110010100 110111101010110100 11011110111010010 1101011101111001 11010101111001110 1111011111110100 111101111110100010 1110111101100010100 111111011111101111110100 01111000111011110 110111001110110110 1111110010110110100 10011110010011011110 110111001110001 110011011111001 1001101111111110 1100011011110110110 11111101111010001 010010011111111111011 101111100011111110 1110111010110100110 11110100110101 110111001111111110 11011011010100010 110011100111001110 11111110111110001 11110010111001111 1001110111110010 111110001110001100 1110110011111110 1101110011111011110 111111111101011 1111011101110101100 1101001101011001 1101111111111111 111111111111100010 11011010111110100 11111011111100111 111100011110011011 11011111110110001 111010011111100011 101010011111111001 110101101111001011 11011101101101110 110101010110011100 11111100110111 111101111101010 1111110011011001 11001001001111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 74 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, gr, der, wer, ist's, sie, in, und, das, ein, mit, du, des, wenn, vaterlands, den, nicht, wir, wie, er, es are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word wie is repeated.
The author used the same word wie at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ndet, hnen, nnen, sten are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase geschaffen connects the lines.
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