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

Faust
Wenn diese Leiche lachen könnte, traun!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXXXbX cXXdd aXX cXXXXbX aXXeXXXXdXXXX cXeXXXX aXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXX bXXXX aXXXXXXX XbXXXXX aXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXbXXXXXX acXXXXXX XXaf abXXX XXbXXXXXccXXXXXXeXeXXXfaXXXXX X cbXbXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,5,3,7,13,7,21,5,8,7,21,11,8,4,5,29,1,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111011 1111111010 111111100110 11110111010 1111101100 1001011110 111111110 11111100 1111101100 1111101110 111111010 11110101100 10 1101111110 1101011110 110111111 1101110111 1 0111110111 11010100 10 1101011100 1101011100 11110001000 101111000 111110010 1011110100 1 111011110 110110110 1101100101 110111111100 1111011100 1101111000 111001101 1011101111 111111010 1111110110 111110110 11110101110 10 1111001010 10111111111101 1111110100 1111101100 11111111 1000110101 1 111111010 101111010110 1011010010 1010110101 1101111000 1101111101010 111111101 10111011000 1111011101 1011110100 101110101 11110001 11111110010 110101011 1101111110 11110100 1111110110 1001010110 101111110 111110110 1000011001011101 1111110011110 1101100100 1110101100 11100110 1 111111101110 11111100 111101111 11110111000 1111011110 1001101100 11110 10000 111110 111101100 10111111000 11111101100 1111111111010 1100111110 1 110011100 1101010100 1111001100 11111001 1101010001 11111111110 1010101100 111111011101 01010111011 100100101 1011100010 1101111011 1111111000 1110110110 110111100 1011010111 1011010101 1101100100 1110010101 1011100101 10000 111110110 11110011010 111101110 11100111110 1111010010 11011100010 1101100111 11111011101 11100101100 1111110110 1 11100101010 110111110 1011100110 11111111010 1101100100 110111110 111111011001 10000 1100111101 111111111 111010011 1 1011010110 110101100 11110011110 11010100100 10000 11011111100 10111111010 111111011 110001111 110101010 101010010 01111111000 100111110 01100010010 1100101100 10011110 11011101010 10111101 1100110111 01100101000 1001010010 11111001100 1111010111 11101101100 110111110 111101111100 1101010111 110111010 111011010 1110011100 11110011100 10111101110 11111111010 0100 10 11111111111 1101111101 1111010101 011111101 1110111101 1111110110 101111011 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 177
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; das, die, der, und are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, und are repeated.

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

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