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

Wagner
Ihr werdet nimmer ihn erkennen;...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,29,11,11,27,3,2,1,3,4,6,27,23,27,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 110101100 100111010 01011110 11111110 110100100 111111 1111110 111111111 111111100 11100111 011101100 11111100 111111010 111101100 100 1111110000 111111100 10111000 11111001 111100100 10111110 11111101 11011111 1101111 1111110 101101000 110001000 11010011 1100100 11000100 1100111 11111100 1111101 11111101 111111 1101101 1111111101 111100 11011011 11111110 1111110010 11100010 1101101 10 1110110111 10110101 0111100 1001011 110101000 110101110 101111100 01110011100 111101000 1111111111010 100 11111111 11010110 11111101 1111011 111101 111001 11110111 01111101 110111100 1110011110 10 11110100 1111111010 1111111111 11111101000 111101110 11000100 10111010 110110110 1101011 1111110 1111101 1110111 1101111101 111110 1101101 1101010 110101100 11111111 1101110 1111100011000 11011010 0111111110 10101100 100101010 1110001 11011101 110001110010 111101000 1100111 100 11 1111001 10 111111010 1111101 1001100 11011101 11110101 11111100 1 1101101 11011100 11111100 11010101 111110 100 111101100 1111110 11101101 11111101 1101111 1111110111 11111110 1111011 1101111 111111110 111111010 110111010 111101010 01011000 111111000 11110110 1111001 11001111 1111011 1111111 011111010 1111111010 1111111010 1111111 11100111 1111101 1 101111100 11011110 11000110 111111100 11111111 1111100 11111101 111111111 1111010111 111100100 1011100 110001100 11111101 11011100 111110010 1111110100 1111101 11111000 111101100 10111110 01111100 111101000 100 11110101 111111 10010101100 111111011 111111111 11011100 1111010100 11101010 1111101 101111011111 1111111 11010111 111111010 110101100 011101100 11111000 111111100 111101000 11011101 11111100 110110000 1101100 1101001010 1110110000 11111111 111111001100 1 10010110100 111111110 01011101010 111111100 0110110100 100111011 1111101110 111111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 198
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; er, und, die, ihr are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chte is repeated).

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