What is the author's style in Faust. Part Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

Goethe is not only a great poet in the sense that he chooses great themes and creates great characters, he is also a master stylist and master of the German language. It is sometimes said that Shakespeare effectively creates modern English in his plays and this could also be reasonably said of Goethe, though Martin Luther's translation of the Bible into German deeply shaped the German language as well. Goethe makes constant and ingenious use of puns and double meaning, which translations can only hint at.

There is also the rhyme scheme and poetic style of Faust which is more approachable in translation. Faust ,like all epic poetry, uses an elevated and often overly metaphorical style. Goethe combines this high style with what can only be described as a "Lutheran" love of low German puns and vulgarities. In the beginning of Act III, mimicking Greek drama, there is no rhyme scheme. Helen, bound by classical conventions, later asks Faust to teach her how to speak in rhyme. This is symbolic of Goethe's desire to infuse the classical with modern forms.

Goethe employs his own unique rhyme scheme throughout much of Faust, though he varies it based on characters and for effect. Sometimes he even uses the Shakespearean Iambic Pentameter scheme. For Goethe, in the rhyme scheme and the language in general, form and substance are always merged. Indeed, his dedication to that principle is evident not only in the language of the poem, but also in the theme itself. The Homunculus is substance without form and Helen is form without substance. Both are fused together in Faust the man and Faust the play.