Analysis of The Tattered Cord (Der Abgerissen Strick, translation with original German)
Bertolt Brecht 1898 (Augsburg) – 1956 (East Berlin)
The Tattered Cord
The tattered cord
can again become knotted.
It holds
but it is torn.
Perhaps we'll face
each other again
but there,
where you left me,
you'll not meet me
again.
Der Abgerissen Strick
Der abgerissene Strick
kann wieder geknotet werden
er hält wieder, aber
er ist zerrissen.
Vielleicht begegnen
wir uns wieder,
aber da,
wo du mich verlassen hast
triffst du mich
nicht wieder.
| Scheme | A Axxb xcxddc e exfb bfxxxf |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 0101 1010110 11 1111 0111 11001 11 1111 1111 01 111 111 110110 0111010 011 11 1110 101 11111 111 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 389 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 6, 1, 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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