This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Der Abendgang that begins with:

Tiefschweigend ruhn die Alpenwiesenhänge,
Die Blume schließt den Tau in ihren Schoß,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXXbXXXXXXcXXXXXcXXXXaaXXXXcXXXdXXXXXXeXXXXXfXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXgXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXX bXbXceXXeggccXXaXhXXXcXXXgXXXXXXXXXiicXXiXXXXXXXXXXXbXXX XdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcc X XXXXcXXXXX X XXgX X fXXX Xhh XXcXXXeXXXX bccXX XXXXXeXXX X XXXXcX j XX jXc XXXXXXX i XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,29,56,19,1,10,1,4,1,4,3,11,5,9,1,6,1,2,3,7,1,6,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111000 111110101 111111010 11101011 11011111010 111101101 111100100 1110001010 110001110 100111100 111110011 10011110 1100110100 1110101100 1101001110 11000101000 11001101000 1110110111 111010110 1111010101000 10110111100 11110001100 011101110 111101110 11111100 111110101 111110100 11111111110 11011111 111110011 11001101 110101111 1111111110 1101011100 01111110 1010111110110 1110101010 1111101010 110111111 111010100 111111101 101111111101 11111101010 11011101100 111111100 11111101 11111101100 11111000100 110111100 1001100 10110101110 110101111 1111011101 1111100111 111101111101 111011110 10000101101000 11110111 11101101 111111010 11011010 110111010 01110111 11100111 1111100010 11011111 1111000 1101011 11111100 11011010 11100100 10011000 1111100 101110000 11001111110 111111100 110111100 1111111 1111111101 11110110 1101100 010101100 1011110 11011100 11011100 1 1111101 11111111 110111 1101111 1111111 11110000 1111110 1110111 11111101 1111111 11111111 111111111 1111100 1111100 1111111111 11001100 0110101 10100110 1101111 11001 11011111 1001110 1110110 11110010 11111101 1111100 101111 11010110 11011101 11101001 11001101 11100101 1110110 1111110 1110110 11110110 111011010 1111111110 1111000 10011110 11111100 110101000 11111100 1111111010 11101110 10011010 1100110 1011101 11010111 111110 11100110 111111 1111111 0101100 11010100 10000 11000100 11010110 01011110 11011111 111101010 110110010 11111101 1011111 11011110 101101100 11111010 101111100 10110110 111101000 1111110 11100 11011111 11111 100 011111000 1110110 1100110 10011100 1111011001 11110110 1111110010 110111100 11111110 110001100 100 11111110 110111000 11010101 10011110000 0110110 11101101 11110110 111111100 1110111 11 11110111 10110111 10000 11110110 11100110 11011100 110111000 1101100 11011101 1110110 11110101 110110110 110111100 1 1001111 1111101 01111100 11011110 10000 11111101 1101010 11111010 110111010 1111111 10010100 1111011 11111111 10 11011010 11110101 1101110 1111111010 010111010 11101000 01011 10110110 1010101 111110011 110111100 110110110 1000010 101111100 1011100 111111111101 110111110100 11011110000 1111110001000 10 111101010 1101110 101111100 1111111111110 111111110101 1111111111101 1 111011101 1110100 11011101100 1111010010 11110111010 1110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 243
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; die, der, zu, ein, ich, ck, dir, sie are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, mag, das, zu, und are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ht, nger, ck, rmen are repeated).

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