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

Schenke am Meeresstrand
Faust, Mephistopheles, Görg, Michel, Kurt, Hans und andere Matrosen, Dirnen, Spielleute u.a. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X abX cX dXeX XXXXXX affXX XXXXX cXXa XaXX dX XgXX daX XXhXXiiXX jXXXXhXXXkaak XXX XXXXXXX cXXiXiX XXXX XXc XX XXXe Xl X XXXXj aXXXX Xii XXa daaXX Xc dcXX XXl a X aXmXaXX XXXXXdaXa aa XaXXXaXX X XX X mm aX XXhcXh acXXX XXXXiXkXX XXXXXiXXXXXaXXaXXiiaXXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,3,2,4,6,5,5,4,4,2,4,3,9,13,3,7,7,4,3,2,4,2,1,5,5,3,3,5,2,4,3,1,1,7,9,2,8,1,2,1,2,2,6,5,9,27,5,7,5,7,7,5,7,19,3,3,11,17,7,5,3,3,1,1,4,7,1,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100 1100001101111010010101 1 1111111111 1111110 10 110111010 1 11011100 1010110 111101011101 1 1111110 1111011110 1100111 11111000 1111110 1 11111101 1110111 11111100 1111111 1 11111110010 10010110 101101010 111101000 10 11111101 01010100 11100011 1 1111111 111111 11010111 1 11101110 1 1111111 1111010 11010101 1 1111111 11111101 1 11001100 1111111 1110100 111111111 10001111 1101111 11110101 11011101 11111 1011111010 110001000 1101111 111100 1101100 1111110 11100110 111111 11000111 111111 1101111 101011 1011 11011101 1101101 1 11011101 11011111 11011100 10111100 11011100 1111010 10 11110100 1101111 11011101 11011010 11001011 111100010 1 10011001 11111101 11011101 1 10110100 11111011 1 11011001 1000011101 10011101110 111111110000 10111111110 1 110110101 111110 1011 0111111 11111101 1111101 1101101 1 11011101 11110010 10111100 11110000 111010 0110111 11111101 1 11110101 11110111 1 1111011 1101111 101101010 110110000 1 111111010 1 011110010 1101011 1011111 1111111010111 111111100 1111 11 1111 1 111111000 11110100 0110111 1101011 110111 1011011101 110 1111011001 0111000 111111010 111110100 11111101 1111111 11111100 1001111111 1 11101101 1 0101111 1111111001 1111111111 1110000 11011111 1111110 1110101 01 11011101 1110111 01101 1111011 1111101 1 11110101 1 1111100 1011011 10111100 11011100 11011101 1 10110111 01101000 11101100 10111110 1 111111010 11011010 11111101 111111011 1111100 110111011 1111110 11110011 10000 11010110 11100010 11111100 101101000 11111111 1111110 11110100 11111101 11101000 1100110 111110011 1100111 11010101 11010001 11111101 1111110 11110111 1111001 110110101 11011110 1111110 110110110 111011110 110111000 1111101 11011000 1 11111110 111111 11010110 11101100 1 11110101 1101010010 1111111101 11110110110 110011100 1101000100 1 1011100 100011 11110010 110111110 1 1101111 10101001 111111110 011011100 110101000 111100100 1 1101101 11111101 1111111 11110100 10001100 110111 1 1111111010 11101011000 1011001100 111100100 1011111 111100111 1111101010 11111110 1111110110 1111110010 1011110010 1 1111111 11110010 0101111 111111 11011110 11111010 111101110 11010100 110111 11101000 1110111 11110001 11111000 11111100 1010101101 1111011100 1111111110 11111111100 1 101111110 110111 101100 01111110 111111110 1 11011100 11111111101 0111111111 111111110111 1111111111 1110101 1110011 11111111011 1101010100 1111011100 1 111111101 11011011 11111100100 11101101100 11111111010 111011111110 10111111110 11010111101 11110011000 100111110 11111011100 11001111000 11110101 1111101 10101101 1111001011 10000 11111000 111101000 11010100 110100010 1101100110 111100110 1 11101111 111111111111 11110001 1111011 1000011 11111111 11101000 1 1111101 111001010 11 1110111 1 11111111 11010010 10011100 1 11111101 1110111 11010111 1111101 10101110 11011100 11 1 11111101 0111101 0111110111 1111101111 1010101 1101010 1 111111101 111111100 11111100 1000011101 11000111000 101011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 70
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 354
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; der, ich, und, zu, ist, er, so, in, die, das, sie, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ich, so, und, das, mein, er, o are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines umt, tzel, ck, trinkt, nke, tteln are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words ne, trinkt at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase du connects the lines.

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