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

Matrosen singen hell ihr Abendlied,
Das kaum noch von der Sängerlippe schied,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaabXXXcXXdXXXXXeXXXcXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXcaXccXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXfXXXXbXbXXXXXcXXdXXdXXXXXbXXXXXXaXXXXXXbbXfXXXXXXXXXXXbeXXXXXXXXXXXXXdaXXXXXdXXcXXcXXcXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 194,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001011100 11111101 111001110 1100101010 11011110101 11111010 1101111110 111101110 110100111 111101111 111101110101 110101011 1111001110 1101111100 11011101000 111110101 11010111101 110011100 11001111 110001110 1011011101 011101101 1001110100 1101110100 110101111 1111110001 1111000110 1111111100 111110010 11110100100 1111111100 1000111100 111101011 100111101 11000011110 11001111 111110110 1110001100 1111001100 1101101100 101110011 11110101100 11111111100 1110010000 1111111111 1101111100 111001101 1111111111 11111111110 11111101110 1101111111 1110110110 11111101010 111111010010 111111010111 111101101 1101111100 1101110110 1111101100 1101111 1111111000 111110011 11111110 1111101101100 1111011011 10101100010 11110101010 1101111001 1111001100 1110111111 110110011 1111110110 1001111010 11111101000 111111111010 11010101010 1101010001 110111111 1111010010 1001011100 1111101000 1111110110 111101101 11011000010 11111111 111001010 111111010 11101010 11011100010 110101101 1110111010 1101101000 11100111110 0101001101 1110101011 1100111100 1111110101 1100110100 11111111 1111110101 1101110100 110100111010 110110001 11011100 100111100 110011110 11111011 1101110100 11011101000 1001111110 1101111111100 11011110 1110100100 111101100010 1101100100 11001001010 101110111 11011111101 11111110100 1101110001 110110010 1111001101 11111110001 111111011110 1101011111010 1111111001110 11011111010 1111111110000 1111110100 1111111101010 1000111100 1111010111 11011111011 11101100 11011011100 1110110010 111011010 11110111010 11011100 101111010101 11111110001 11111111011110 11011111010 1111111110000 0101011110 1111110110 1111011101 11111100010 1010111101110 11011111110 111011111010 10011111010 110111111 1101000111 11111111010 110111101000 110110111010 11011011100 1110001110 11100111110 10111011110 1001111100 1011110010 111111011010 11011011010 1110110010 1101111110 111011000 11111110101 111111110 0101111100 11011000110 1111110101100 1111111000 11000111010 1110011100 11111000100 11110100010 1011110101 111100010 11111111 111001100 11110011 110110111 11111111100 11111001000 111101110 1111111000 111001010 11011110010 110111111 111101111 10011010100 11010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 8259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1399
  • Amount of lines: 194
  • 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; der, die, ein, und, gen, sie, ist, das are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words und, was, der, mein, die, von are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, ngt, geln, hrt, gen, hl are repeated).

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