This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Der See that begins with:
An Klostermauern, alten, einsam düstern,
Ist weit ein stiller See hinausgegossen;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXbb cXc XXXXXXX aXXdXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,15,3,7,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101 11110110000 111110101 1100100010 11111101010 1101011101 1111000110 11011001 11000101010 11111101000 110101111 111001100 1101110101 11111111101 10111101010 1111110001 110011110 111111110 10111110 11001101000 111110010 11110100110 11100111100 0101101100 10000 111111100 11011101100 10111110 111101010100 1111111101 110110010 1111110 1111010110 111111101 0111101111 11010101000 1110101000 111101111 111110011 1 11100110 01110111 10000 10111100 01111110 1111111 11111 1111011110 11111 1111111 0011101110 110110110 1101100011 1101110101 1111010111 1101011100 1101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
- Average number of words per stanza: 77
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word die is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines et is repeated).
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