This is an analysis of Aftersong by Friedrich Nietzsche.

O noon of life! A time to celebrate!
Oh garden of summer!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abCAD Xeefg aehia jibhj kkjbl lXeie mbiXX nemho kcelb nemoo ahaXe kijef djCAD cXbfgXohhhh
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
  • Metre: 1101010101 110010 101000101010 111110111 1111110101 10111101010 01101010 0101011111 01010110000101 01110010111 1111010110101 111101 1110101000101 11111111 111011101 111110110101 1011101 11010111101010 111101011111 111111111101 1101010010011 111011 0100110101110 1101001010110 1011101100 111011110 1101 11110010101 01111111 01011110010 111111101 101110 1011111111 10101010111 11100101010 10101010111 1101 01010111101 10110100100 111001011110 110011110101 1111 11110111 10111110100 11011111010 111101011 1101 111111 1010010101 1011110001 11111111111 1101 1111111110111 11111111011 11001110101 110101100101 111 1101010111 111111101 100111010101 1101010101 11010 101000101010 111110111 1111110101 0101011010 1011 0010000110110 011111111010 0111111001 11101100100010 0101 1100010101 1011010101 010111110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 15
  • Lines: 75

Repeated words/phrases

you, my, so, i, one, and, here

Anaphora

have, i, here, that, o, a

Epiphora

myself

Anadiplosis

here