This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Fausts Tod that begins with:

Faust (auf einem Felsen sitzend)
Der starke Görg hat meiner Nacht...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,44,4,46,36,1,23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 1111101 11010110 11101110 10110110 10110101 01011001 1101011 1111111 110101000 11100110 11111101 111011000 1111110 1101111 11110110 111111010 1101011111 110110 11101100 111001010 10111110000 111111100 111111 1011101 11010100 11110011 10001100000 11101101000 1110111100010 1101000 11110111 1111010100 1111101 1111110100 1111110111 111001110 11000100 110101000 11110100 111101100 11110101 10010010 11111101 1111111101 01000110 11011101 10111101 111111 10111101 11110101 10111001 11110110 111110110 11000111 1111101 110010101 11111101 11011100 11110010 10000110 11000100 100011 1110101 11111010 1111101 11011000 11011111 1101111 1110010 1101011 1111011 11110110 11101100 01010101 1111000010 11110110 111101 11100110 111111101 1101000 11110111 1111011 11110011 11110001 1111011 11110111 1111011 1101111 10111110 111100 11101100 111001000 110101100 11100110 10110100 1111111 1101100 10111110 101111100 10111010 11111111100 1001100 11010110 111101100 11111110000 110010110 111011101 1111111 11110110100 11110100 110111101 1101100011 11111111 1111000110 111111111000 10011100 111110111 11111101 1111111101 11110110 11111000 1101111 11011101100 11110001 11111101 1101010101 11111111 11110110 0101010100 1101010 1111111101 11110110 1011001111 11011100 1011111 11011101 111011111 011111000 110011011 1100101101 01110111 01011101 111110011111 1011101101 1111111100 1111100101 111111111111 111110011 0101 10000 1011110100 111111110 11011101100 11110101100 11111101000 1101100100 101000111 1111011101 1111110101 011111001 11111101101 1101110011 1111110011 11111110 0111111111100 1111101000 011110111 110101111100 1000100101 1111011000 1100111100 1111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 909
  • Average number of words per stanza: 157
  • Amount of lines: 173
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, die, der, ich, gen, nicht, alle, ist, und, ein, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, der, nach, und, du are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gen, mmert, ht are repeated).

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