Analysis of Melancholy

August Stramm 1874 (Münster) – 1915 (Kobryn)



Living desires
Shouldering to stand
Glimpses searching
Dying grows
Striding to strive
What is to come
SHRIEKS!
Deep
Dumbing
We.


Scheme ABCDEFGHCI
Poetic Form Tetractys  (50%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 10010 10011 1010 101 1011 1111 1 1 10 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 126
Words 22
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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August Stramm

August Stramm was a German poet and playwright who is considered one of the first of the expressionists. more…

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