This is an analysis of the poem Faust. Die Lektion that begins with:

Minister
Geehrte Herrn, ich bin entzückt,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXbXXcXX bcXcXXaXXbdXXXXXXXXXX bXXXXbX aeXXX XXX XXX XXXbXXXfXXXXX XXX aX XaXXbX aXX XggHXXXXXXXXXXXXX aXXXX XXXXXXfgfiiXX adX XHXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbX acXXXXX XXXXX XbXbXXXXX XcXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXbXXXXXXX aXXbX XXcXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,21,7,5,3,3,13,3,2,6,3,17,5,13,3,57,7,5,9,25,5,5,2,1,10,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 11111 1111011 111110 11111101 1101100 10000 11110110 1011101 11100111 11110100 11001011 1111100 111001100 10011 11010001 11111100 01001001 111011100 110110 1110110 1111010110 110001000 11101101 110011 1100111 110110 1101110 11101010 111101011110 111111110 1111111100 110111000 10011000 11000100 1 101111 1111110110 11111111 111111000 11011110 11111101 100 111111 1101111 111001000 101110100 10000 1111111 1101111 1100 101101010 11100110 100110000 11100010 11101101 110111 1101101 11001110 11000000 11111111 11100010 10011111 11110111 110011100 01101000 10000 1110110 11011110 100 1101111 10000 10111110 111001000 1111010 11111101 11110110 100 11111101 1111101 10000 1101111 11110101 1011111 11110010 110111100 11111110 11111110 10100100 11101000 110101100 111111 11111000 110001 111101100 1111101 1111101 100 11011110 11101100 11111000 11111100 10000 1111110 1110111 11001001 110100100 11111100 101111 110111111 1111011 111111010 11011111 11111100 111101100 100 1111101 1100010 10000 1011111 11110010 11011101 1100110 10110010 110011000 1101010 11010101 01011100 1011111010 111101000 1111100100 000101110 100111000 111111000 01011100 111101110 111101110 100101110 10011000 111101110 11000101 11001000 11011111 0101101 1111100 11110110 111111100 010100010 10111101000 10011101 111010 111110 111111100 110010010 1111110000 11110100 1110100 11010100 101011 111101100 111000100 11101110 111111010 11111100 11110101 101000100 11010100 11110111100 11000101 11111 10011110010 11110010 01011101 111011 11100110 100 110111110 1110110 1100100 100011 11111110 1010001 11000111100010 1001100110 111111101 1001011001 11001001000 100110000 1100101 11111100 1111101 11101100 11011100 1111011 11110101 1110100 10000 111111110 110101111 11011000 01010001 1011111000 101101000 111100100 111011101 1111011 11011100 111111111 11110111 111100110 11110100 111111010 11111110 111111101 110111110 11111110 11111110 11111011 111111010 1111110 10111110 100 11110010 111101000 1011101 01100100 10000 1111101 11010111 11000100 1111001 1001100 101 110000 1101 10010111 11111001 1111101 111101100 110011010 111011100 11110101000 11111111110 11111111100 10000 11011110 110101100 110111110 101101100 110111 11001101 1101111 11110101 101111 111101010 11011111 11010100 110111110 111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 259
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sie, dem, ihr are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words die, wenn, sich, zensoren, dann are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ckt, r, te, ckend, pfe, rger, stlich, nnen are repeated).

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