Analysis of The Critic

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



I HAD a fellow as my guest,
Not knowing he was such a pest,
And gave him just my usual fare;
He ate his fill of what was there,

And for desert my best things swallow'd,
Soon as his meal was o'er, what follow'd?
Led by the Deuce, to a neighbour he went,
And talk'd of my food to his heart's content:
"The soup might surely have had more spice,
The meat was ill-brown'd, and the wine wasn't nice."
A thousand curses alight on his head!
'Tis a critic, I vow! Let the dog be struck dead!


Scheme AABB CCDDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 11011101 011111001 11111111 011011110 1111110110 110110111 0111111110 011101111 01111001101 0101001111 101011101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 480
Words 100
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 8
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 2023

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