This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Das Waldgespräch that begins with:

Mephistopheles
Hörst du im Wald des Herbstes Räuberpfiff,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXX bcXXXdX XXXeXefXXXXa bX XXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXfgXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXX bXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXgXXXX bXXXXXXbXXXbf Xadad bXXXd XX bXXXXXXXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,12,2,39,7,21,13,5,5,2,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000 1011110100 1111010101 111111100 111100111 111111110001 1001011110 11101101100 11110011010 1 1111011110 11111011010 111111110 1011001010 11001101010 1110011010 10000 111111111100 111101111 1101111101 1110111 0100010101 11111111111 1111010110 1110110111 11000101100 1111101001100 1111010111 1 10111010 10000 11011101110 11011001010 1101011110 11001101100 1100111000 1111110101 1101011000 10011111110 101111111100 1011111010 10111111001100 111110110 0101110101 111010100 1101010101 1111111111 1111011000 1100010111 111101010101 100110110 1100011101 11010111001 111010110 101101111 11010110010 11110001010 111101010010 1101110010 111001101 1011000100 11010100010 11001001 1001101110 1110110110 1111001101 1111011110 111111111100 110111111100 1 11110111010 111001100 11100001100 1111110000 10111100110 11110111010 10000 1110110101 111011111 010110010 11110101010 1111010111 110101110 1111001000 1101011110 011111110 101100110 1111101111 10101101 110111011 100100100 1011010110 110111111111 110001111 1110010111 11110101100 11110111010 1 1101111111 1101101011 11111111111000 101100011 1101111101 11111111000 111111111 1100111010 1110111101 111110011000 111001011 111110011 10000 010111110 0111111001 111010101 111001111 1 1000111101 111011000 100111100 10101111 10000 110111100 1 1110010111 1110111101 1000111110 111111110110 111101111 11111010110 1111111100 1110110101 101111000 110110001 111111101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 439
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 134
  • 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; die, ihr, ich, nur, mich are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words das, die, ihr, bin are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cken, tern, hl, en are repeated).

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