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

Ein hoher Berg, vom Morgen angeglüht,
Der hell und froh herauf im Osten sprüht;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaXXaXXXXXXXbbccXXXXXbXXccXXXXXXcXXXXXcXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 1111101101 1101111101 111111011 11011101000 11011101100 11010101110 1111011110 111110100 1111011101 110011101 1100111101 11011110 111110110001 11110011010 1111001000 111111110000 10111101110 111101111 111100111 10111110 11011010 1010110010 1111111010 110101111 1110100011 111110100 1110010100 1110101101 111101110 1101111100 1110110100 1100110111110 11110101100 110101111 11100111 111110111101 11111001 1111010101 1011110101 1111111110 11110101100 110101111 1111001101 1110010100 111010101 111010101 111010110 110110111 11011111 1101111110 101001111 11111111100 11011101000 111110010 10110001000 1101110111 0110100011 1100011100 111110011110 111001100 10111100100 111111101 111111110111 11110111 1111011100 11011111111 1101110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2954
  • Average number of words per stanza: 500
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; und, die are repeated.

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

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

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