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

Einsam die hohe Königsvilla stand,
Und ragt' ins Meer vom steilen Felsenstrand....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXbXXXXXXXXXaXXcXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111001 1111110110100 100011000 1101111010 10011101010 1010111000 1111110111 1101111100 1101111100 1110110110 1101011100 01010011010 11111111010 1111111110 110111110010 111100100 1101010000 11100100 01110011110 1111111100 11101110 11111111000 0111110100 11111101100 10100100 1100011100 110111100 010110100 11111110 10110101000 11101100010 1100110100 1111010010 1110111100 0111100110 101010101000 11010101 1100011110 111111101 101011101 111101100010 1101101010 1111101010 111100011010 1101110101 111011100 11011110 110001111110 11111110100 11000101100 11100101111 1111101100 1111110100 1101110101 110101110 1101010010 111110101 111001010 1111111111101 11010110010 1111111100 1001101 1101110011 11010001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2631
  • Average number of words per stanza: 444
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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 is repeated.

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

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