Analysis of May Song
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
How fair doth Nature
Appear again!
How bright the sunbeams!
How smiles the plain!
The flow'rs are bursting
From ev'ry bough,
And thousand voices
Each bush yields now.
And joy and gladness
Fill ev'ry breast!
Oh earth!--oh sunlight!
Oh rapture blest!
Oh love! oh loved one!
As golden bright,
As clouds of morning
On yonder height!
Thou blessest gladly
The smiling field,--
The world in fragrant
Oh maiden, maiden,
How love I thee!
Thine eye, how gleams it!
How lov'st thou me!
The blithe lark loveth
Sweet song and air,
The morning flow'ret
Heav'n's incense fair,
As I now love thee
With fond desire,
For thou dost give me
Youth, joy, and fire,
For new-born dances
And minstrelsy.
Be ever happy,
As thou lov'st me!
| Scheme | A XB X C DB D B EF E G FC F H XX G HX H X IX I H AH A B BH H |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (46%) |
| Metre | 11110 0101 1101 1101 01110 111 01010 1111 0101 111 1111 1101 11111 1101 11110 1101 1110 0101 01010 11010 1111 11111 1111 0111 1101 01011 1011 11111 11010 11111 11010 11110 01 11010 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 703 |
| Words | 131 |
| Sentences | 18 |
| Stanzas | 26 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 35 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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