This is an analysis of After-Sensations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

WHEN the vine again is blowing,
Then the wine moves in the cask;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a ba c a ba c d bdXc
  • Stanza lengths: 1,2,1,1,2,1,1,4,
  • Metre: 10101010 1011001 10101010 10011101 11111110 0111111 11101010 1011101 11111010 1010111 10101010 1010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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