This is an analysis of An Die Melancholie by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau.

Du geleitest mich durchs Leben,
Sinnende Melancholie!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01001110 10100 11111010 1010101 111010 1110101 1010011 1110101 10101101 110111 11101011 1100100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

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