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

Wie Silberglocken am Marienfeste
Versenden ihren reinen, hellen Klang,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001100 1001010101 1111110100 101110001 111111111 1101010110 100111001 110111100 100111001 11011001 11000111 11111101 10011100100 111111111000 0111001110 111101001 111000110 0101110110 1111110100 1100010001 11100100 1111011101 11001101000 11101100000 11111111110 111111111100 110111111101 1111111110 111010101 10101101 1001010101 1011011 11010111000 101101110 1111111110 1110101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1484
  • Average number of words per stanza: 248
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, und are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nge, t, en, ten, fte are repeated).

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