Analysis of Book Of Love - The Types

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)



LIST, and in memory bear
These six fond loving pair.
Love, when aroused, kept true
Rustan and Rad!
Strangers approach from far
Joseph and Suleika;
Love, void of hope, is in
Ferhad and Schirin.
Born for each other are
Medschnun and Lily;
Loving, though old and grey,
Dschemil saw Boteinah.
Love's sweet caprice anon,
Brown maid and Solomon!
If thou dost mark them well,
Stronger thy love will swell.


Scheme AABCDEFFDGHFFIJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1001001 111101 110111 101 100111 1001 111110 101 111101 1010 101101 111 11011 110100 111111 101111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 391
Words 71
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 312
Words per stanza (avg) 69
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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