This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Das Lied that begins with:
Der König, die Königin und die Großen des Reiches sitzen an der Hochzeitstafel. Allgemeines Vivatrufen und Anklingen mit den Pokalen
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXXa XXX XaX XXX X XXXaXbb cXddXC b XC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,3,3,3,1,7,6,1,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011111010111000101100011001111100 1100011101100 1101110100 1011101110 111101100 11101111101 11 1111111100 1001010110 110 110101011 1101110101 10000 1111111 1101111 1110011110111111110101 11110 1110110 111111 101111 1010001 11111 111111 1011101 11011 1010001 1110111 111111 11111 1100110011011101110000101101011001111110010011100011110111 111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; der, und are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word der is repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).
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