Analysis of When I Was Still A Youthful Wight
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
WHEN I was still a youthful wight,
So full of enjoyment and merry,
The painters used to assert, in spite,
That my features were small--yes, very;
Yet then full many a beauteous child
With true affection upon me smil'd.
Now as a greybeard I sit here in state,
By street and by lane held in awe, sirs;
And may be seen, like old Frederick the Great,
On pipebowls, on cups, and on saucers.
Yet the beauteous maidens, they keep afar;
Oh vision of youth! Oh golden star!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 111010010 010110101 111001110 11110011 110100111 110111101 110111011 0111111001 11110110 101101101 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 461 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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