This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Der Sturm that begins with:
Faust
Wir wandeln auf dem Schifflein hin und her,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXXXXcXXXXXXXXX XXXXXbbXXXXcXXXaXXXXXccaaXXcXXX aXXXX XdXXXXXXXXaXaXXbXaaXXXX aXXXXXXXX XdXXX aXXXXXXXXXX XbXaaXaXXX aX b XAAXdXX XAA dXaXXXX XXXXX X XX aXX XXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,31,5,23,9,5,11,10,2,1,7,3,7,5,1,2,3,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101110110 11011011010 1101111110111 11111010110 1111010011 01010011110 11110100111 10111000011 111110110 111011101 11011111110 1111110101 1101100100 10111101000 11111100000 11111110 10000 1101111110 1111010100 1101010111100 1001011100 10010101010 110111111110 11011111000 1101111100 1111000100 1111110100 110110011 10101110 1101110101 1111011101 110111011 111110 11101111001 111100011 111001111 11101110 10111111001 111010001 1111110101 111011101 1101010000 111111100 11111111101 111111100 1101110111 111111100 1 111111000 1101101100 11111111 11111111 10000 1101111101 0111100011 1111011110 11111111011 1111101010 1110110101 1100011100 111110010 11011100100 100001111101 1111111110 1111110101 111110111 110101110 1110101110 10111101000 011110111 1111011101 1111010111 111110000 10111110 1011111101 1 111111110 10011101000 11111111010010 111111110101100 100110010 11100110 1101110001 110111000 10000 1011010110 1011011000 1111111100 1111110001000 1 110101011 11111111000 1010110010 1100010100 1011000100 1111110011 10111111 111111100 110101010 101100101 10 11010111010 1101110111 11010111 111111111 1111011101 11100111 111111110 1111111110 111101011101 1 1001010110 1111110 110111 1010101 100010101 1110101 1011110 10111100 11011100 100111 1010101 100010101 110110 110111110100 010011101 101111111000 11110101110 11011011010 11101100 10000 10001001110 110101110 11110001010 110111110100 100110 11011011110 10111111010 1 11111101100 1110111000 10000 1111011101100 11101111110 111110100 10011101110 111111011 111110101 11011111000 1011011010 101111101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 153
- 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; und, die, der, zu, wie, ich are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words das, und are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ck, ster, e, t are repeated).
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