This is an analysis of the poem The Lorelei that begins with:
Yonder we see it from the steamer's deck,
The haunted Mountain of the Lorelei -- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabbacdcXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011000101 0101000101 0101110101 11010001111 1101010101 0101111111 01110101001 11001010001 0111110101 1111110111 11110100001 101111110110 1111011111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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