Analysis of Book Of Suleika - Hatem 01

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



NOT occasion makes the thief;

She's the greatest of the whole;
For Love's relics, to my grief,

From my aching heart she stole.

She hath given it to thee,--

All the joy my life had known,
So that, in my poverty,

Life I seek from thee alone.

Yet compassion greets me straight

In the lustre of thine eye,
And I bless my newborn fate,

As within thine arms I lie.


Scheme A BA B C DC D E FE F
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101 1010101 1110111 1110111 1110111 1011111 1101100 1111101 1010111 0010111 0111101 1011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 355
Words 73
Sentences 4
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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