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

Faust
In jener Nacht, an jener stillen Leiche...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXXXXaXXXbXXX Xcc adXeeXX XXXff aXX XXXXXXXXX aXXXX XbXXaXX aX XXbX aX XXXXX aX XXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXbbbXXX agXgX XXX aXX XXXXXXXXXXhXdXXXXXXXXXXXXcX aXfXXcXcX XiiXXXcXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXd aXXXX XXXjj aXXXXX XXaXXXdXXXXXaX XXXXXXXX Xaa aaX XXXXdd cXXgXXXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,3,7,5,3,9,5,7,2,4,2,5,2,23,5,3,3,27,9,23,5,5,6,14,8,3,3,6,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0101110101 101111100 110111010 111011010 1110011100 11110011100 11111111010 111000111 101101100 10111110100 01111111111 11111100101 111111010010 1111110110010 11011101100 1011111100 10000 1111111111 1001101101 1 10111011110 11110111 11111111 11001001 110101010 11111010 10000 11110110 11111110 110111011 10011101 1 11111100 11100110 10000 01101110 110110000 11111110 011101100 11101110 110111010 11010 11111110 1 111111 111101111111 11111100 1111100100 10000 111111010 11011110 11100100 11011101 11011110 11011100 1 11110110 10000 1111110110 11011101010 1110110 1 111101110 10000 1101111010 111011100 1001011101 111011100 1 11010111 10000 11111011 1111001001000 11100111100 11001111111 11110011011 100101111 01111100 011100111 111111010111 01101101 011111000 110011110 0111010110 0111111100 101011110 1101011100 111111011101 111110101 1100011010 11111011 111011001 1101011111000 1 1111110101 1001111110 111111000 1111001110 10000 10111110 11110101 1 1111101110 1111110101110 10000 101010101 111001111 11111101110 1110010111100 1111110 11001110 11101101 10011101 10011101 11001011 110111011 11010010 110011 111011 101011100 101011100 1110010010 111111001 111010101 111010111100 111001000 101110110 1101110101 11111101010 1111011101 1101010100 1 111111011 111101111001 1101111100010 11110111100 0111011101 11111101100 11111011111 111111011110 10000 1010100111 111110111 1101001110 111110111101 10110110 101101101 1101000110 11100010010 11000111100 11110111 100111111 111111101 1110111100 11011110000 1110110010 1101110111 11110100010 11111101110 11110111010 1011001110 11111111110 1010011111010 1 11100111 1101110010 101111111 110111010 10000 11111110100 1011100010 0111011111 1101011101 1 1101010010 1111110010 1111110101 100111000 1111111111 10000 1111001001 111111111 1101010110 1110110100 10011001100 1001011110 1001111111 111110100 110110101100 1111110100 1111101100 111101101 1111100110 10011110000 11010111010 11011100100 11000111010 11001111100 110111111110 11011101000 111111100 10000 111111111 110010111 1 111100101 1100101001 11111011 111111110 1111111110 1101111001 111100110 110101110 1101111101 111101110 1101010101 110111011 111011100 1111101101 111000110 1111101101 1101110100 1111000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 290
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 224
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; und, mit, das, ist, die, du, der, von, ich, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words das, die, du, und, also, schaff, wenn are repeated.

    The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stet, beln, che, chtnis are repeated).

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