Analysis of Sorrows of Werther



Werther had a love for Charlotte
  Such as words could never utter;
Would you know how first he met her?
  She was cutting bread and butter.

Charlotte was a married lady,
  And a moral man was Werther,
And, for all the wealth of Indies,
  Would do nothing for to hurt her.

So he sighed and pined and ogled,
  And his passion boiled and bubbled,
Till he blew his silly brains out,
  And no more was by it troubled.

Charlotte, having seen his body
  Borne before her on a shutter,
Like a well-coducted person,
  Went on cutting bread and butter.


Scheme XAAA BAXA CCXC BAXA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 10101110 11111010 11111110 11101010 10101010 00101110 01101110 11101110 11101010 01101010 11111011 01111110 10101110 10101010 101110 11101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 536
Words 101
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Makepeace Thackeray

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