This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Der Teufel that begins with:
Am Menschen ist's ein mir beliebter Zug,
Daß, wenn's Geschick ihm eine Wunde schlug,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXaXaXXXaXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111001 11101111 111011110 1100110110 111010100 111111010 1110100111 1001011101 111111011101 110011111 100011110 1101111000 1111101100 111100100 1110010100 110001100 1101011111 111011110 1001111110 1011101110 111101101100 111011111 11011110100 101101111 111111101 111011011 110110111 1111111010 110111110110 111111101 11111001010 11010011000 110111110110 1011011111110 11111111010 01110101010 1101101100 111111011 1010011101 100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1710
- Average number of words per stanza: 304
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; zu, ihn, ich, dann are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, so are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hlen is repeated).
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- summary of Faust. Der Teufel;
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