What do different stanza lengths in poems mean?
Hi, I'm currently examining the poem "Wonne der Einsamkeit" by Ludwig Tieck (1802), and I noticed that almost every stanza has a different length, except for the first two. What could this mean?
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I just looked at this one again. And I suspect that the verses here are simply line groups that belong together in content. One actually speaks of verses only because they can be sung with repeated melody as in a song. I used to get to know the term verse groups, which seems to be very suitable here.
https://www.fast-throughblicken2.de/tieck-wonne-der-attention-mp3
The length of the individual stanzas is different from the first two. I would possibly understand these two as a kind of introduction before it goes into more detail.