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

Faust reitet hin im grauen Dämmerschein
Auf seinem Rappen, sinnend und allein....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXcXdXeX XXXbX fgXgXXdXdXXbX gXXX fggXdXXaXaXX HXXXXXXfbXf gXXaX fXXdd X iXJXXbbX XXgX gghX iXJX gbXXb fXXXX gXdbX X fXXXXXXkegXXXbb X fXfXXXXX gbXbb HXXhd ggXXjXXXXXcXXkX fXXfX gbXhhXX XgX XXXaXbbXXgXggXXbXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeXXfgXXgXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,5,13,4,12,11,5,5,1,8,4,4,4,5,5,5,1,15,1,8,5,5,15,5,7,3,66,5,4,6,1,3,11,7,11,9,1,18,3,1,21,1,8,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011110 1101010110 1111111000 11010100 110101111 111011101 111101110 111111101 11110100100 1111100110 1101111010 11110111110 1101110110 111110110 10101111010 1101001001 1110010111 1111010101 110110111 111111100 1101011010 0111111000 1111101101 1110110001 1101011101 1111110011 110010101 1101011100 101110 1111010 111111100 11011101 111101100 10 1111101 11110001 11111101 1111011 1111111 11011111 11110110 10111111 1110100 10010010 11011011 111101000 1 111101100 111101110 111100 10 10111111 11011011 1111100 11110101 1111110 101011101 1111100 1101111 1111101 1101111 11111111 11 11111100 101111110 01010110 110100100 1110110 1111111 110101100 11110110 11111110 1011111010 1 1111110100 1110100 1110111 1111111 10 101011011 1111111 1111011 11010101 01100111 111 101 1111 1101 1101 1111 1101 1110 1010 1101 1111 1111 1111 111101 1100 1101 111 1001 1111 1101 1 11011110 11010111 111100 1111111110 10 11111010 110111010 1101111 10111110 1 11111100 11010111 1111111 11111010 1111 10 11110101 1111111 11111101 111011 1110101 11100111 1110101 1111111 1111011 11101111 1101111 11010111 11001101 11110101 1101 11111010 110001110 111101010 101101100 11110100 11111101000 111111011 110111010 1 11000111 111101010 11010111 11111111010 11 10011100 11111110 11011101 11101101 1 1111111 1111010001 111101110 11101111 1101110 01011110 0110101 1111111010 111111110 1111101 1111110 101111 11111111 110101100 10 10101111 11111101 11111111110 11010101 1 111001110 01111110 11111101 11101101 11110110 11111111010 111110 11110101 11110110 111101101100 110111110010 1000110010 11110101101 111110110111 11111110001 11111101 110110001 11011101100 111010101 1101101000 1111010101 1111111111111 1111011110 11110111010 0111011111010 10111111100 110111110 11100111010 101111110010 11111001 10111101010 1111011111 1011111101 11111110 111101111 1010110110 1101011100 111101111110010 1001011111 10100101000 11010001000 11111100100 1101010101 1111010010 110111101 1111011010 11111011001 111100101 111011101 110101001 111111010110 111111110 11111111011100 11111111 1110010010 1110110101 1111111010 11111110100 01101101010 1011111100 11111111000 111111110101 111110100 11010101000 11111111001100 11011111010 1110111110 111011011 11110101000 110111110111 111110011010 110111000 010111110 110111011 01010101100 110 11110001100 1011011110 111111010 111010011 1110011000 1101110111 10101101100 1111110100110 11010110 1111101111 11100110 110101100 1111101 111101100 1111010 11000 1110111101 0111110101 10000111 111110111 1111100110 1001001110 110101001 10101101 111000100 1111010100 1110010 11111101 11111111 1 0111110110 1111111101 11111111 11111111111 11111111110 11011101000 100001001101101 10111100 110011111 1110010101 11100111 11101111111 11111111010 1111111111 1100111110 111110111 11111101001 1111110 0111010111 11111011111 11011111110 111011110010 1101110110 1111110101000 1111111101 11 11000010 111111000 11111001111010 111101111 110101011 11011001 1111010 111111111100 11111100010 11110011110 1100011101 111010101 1111110101 111010101 1001011101 1111110111 1111011100 1111110011 11111110 10000 1011011101 110011001 100 1111110101 111111 1111110010 1101011 111111110 11000100 1110001111 1110111 110101100 11001000 110111110 11011100 01111010 010100100 11111101000 1111101 11100101 110101000 11011111000 111111000 01110110 10100 1111101010 110011100 111110010 11011000 110111001 11111110111 1111111100 110111010 1110110101 1100010101 111110111 0111110001 110111110 101100111100 111100110 111101010101 11111111001 111110111 011111110 111111001111 111101111 110011111101 11001111011 110010011 1111110101100 0101101111 1101111110 11011111 1111110100 110011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 44
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 384
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; die, und, das, ihr, der, den, er, nicht are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, und are repeated.

    The author used the same word faust 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 gen, hne, gel, bel, en, sten, chter, ngnis are repeated).

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