This is an analysis of To The Sun by Ingeborg Bachmann.

More beatiful than the remarkable moon and her noble light,
More beautiful than the stars, the famous medals of the night,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbc cdea cfe gc c Xe ae hh feg aadXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 5,4,3,2,1,2,2,2,3,6,
  • Metre: 1100100100110101 110010101010001 110010100100101 1100111101101010 0110111110110001 1001110011010 10101100010101 0101101110001001 1111111011101 010110110101 1100101101101 111111010111 10011111011100011 111011111101 10110010011001001 1011001010101010101 1000110101001 101010001001001 10101000100111001010 10111111101111 10010111111 1011001010101111 1110010110101 01011111011 10010111110101 1101111110111 0111101010011 111111001111011 11010010001011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 11
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

more, than, and, see, beautiful, that, blue, for, not

Anaphora

more, nothing, and, blue