This is an analysis of Faust. Der Nächtliche Zug by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau.
Am Himmel schwere dunkle Wolken hangen
Und harrend schon zum Walde niederlauschen.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXaXaXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 72,
- Metre: 1101101010 1101111000 101111100 11110100010 110011010 111011000 11000111 1100110110 01111100 11011101100 1111101101010 1111001100 110101111 111110101 1100100100 01101110010 1110110100 1011111010 10111100 1101100100 1110111101 111011101100 1111111000 1111011101 1101111101 1111010100 111101001 1111010010 11101001 1101111 1101001111 1101010101 0101000100 1011111 110011011 1001110001 1111111001 111111110 1111110001 111011001 1111111101010 1011111101110 11000110000 111111110 111100010111 01101100 110101000 01011010 101110100 101110100 111101110100 11001110 1001010111 111001100 1111010111000 1101010001 1100011000 1111010101000 11110111010 011001011100 01101101000 11011110010 1111101111 1101010110 1111010101 111101001 111011101 1111010110 110111111 1111010101 11110111 101111011110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
der, und
Anaphora
je, der, und
Epiphora
umen, nge
