Analysis of Ergo Bibamus!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
FOR a praiseworthy object we're now gather'd here,
So, brethren, sing: ERGO BIBAMUS!
Tho' talk may be hush'd, yet the glasses ring clear,
Remember then: ERGO BIBAMUS!
In truth 'tis an old, 'tis an excellent word,
With its sound so befitting each bosom is stirr'd,
And an echo the festal hall filling is heard,
A glorious ERGO BIBAMUS!
I saw mine own love in her beauty so rare,
And bethought me of: ERGO BIBAMUS;
So I gently approach'd, and she let me stand there,
While I help'd myself, thinking: BIBAMUS!
And when she's appeased, and will clasp you and kiss,
Or when those embraces and kisses ye miss,
Take refuge, till sound is some worthier bliss,
In the comforting ERGO BIBAMUS!
I am call'd by my fate far away from each friend;
Ye loved ones, then: ERGO BIBAMUS!
With wallet light-laden from hence I must wend.
So double our ERGO BIBAMUS!
Whate'er to his treasures the niggard may add,
Yet regard for the joyous will ever be had,
For gladness lends over its charms to the glad,
So, brethren, sing; ERGO BIBAMUS!
And what shall we say of to-day as it flies?
I thought but of: ERGO BIBAMUS
'Tis one of those truly that seldom arise,
So again and again sing: BIBAMUS!
For joy through a wide-open portal it guides,
Bright glitter the clouds, as the curtain divides,
An a form, a divine one, to greet us in glides,
While we thunder our: ERGO BIBAMUS!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101011101 1101101 11111101011 0101101 01111111001 111101011011 01100111011 0100101 11111001011 0111101 111001011111 1111101 01101011101 11101001011 11011111001 00100101 111111101111 1111101 11011011111 11010101 10111001011 101101011011 1111011101 1101101 01111111111 1111101 11111011001 10100111 11101101011 11001101001 101001111101 111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,364 |
Words | 247 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 4, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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