This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Das Arme Pfäfflein that begins with:
Wie's Völklein in der Stube
Die tollsten Tänze springt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXaXXXXXXXXXbbXcXXXaXXXXbXXXXXXdXdXXXXXXeeXXXXXXXcXcXcXXXXffXgXXaXgXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 126,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11011 101111 1111 1011100 11100 1111010 101110 110010 1101010 1101010 11100 111010 1111110 1111110 1101100 11111001 1001000 110110 11111111 1110100 1111100 11010100 111100 11111000 1111000 110110100 100101000 111000 11111 11101 110100 1111010 1111110 111110 1100100 110100 11111 01110110 11111110 1100110 1111110 1101100 111010 111101 110100 110100 110011 101111010 11111111 111011 11111111 10111101 01100 100101 110100 110111 11111 11111101100 1111110110 110101000 11011110 1110111 1001110 01011110 111111 111111111 11011001 11101110 11011001 110111000 110101100 1110000 1111001111 1110000 11011000 11111101 11010110 111011110 110101100 1101111001 1101101 1110100 111101100 11011111 111010 1110110 1111110010 1110110 1111000100 11111100 11110100 11110110 11011001 11101101 1011111101 1011110 1101110 1111100 1101110 111010 11011101 0111011 111101010 11111 1110111 11011 0111111 110001 1001110 01100010 11110110 11011101 1111011101 110110 1101001111 1111110 111000 11111111 11110010 1111111 1110110 111011010 111101010 1011110 11111000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3871
- Average number of words per stanza: 660
- Amount of lines: 126
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, sie, und, zu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words im, wie, die, und are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rt, mmel are repeated).
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