Analysis of Morning Hymn
Franz Werfel 1890 (Prague) – 1945 (Manhattan)
I am not dead. Through slit and crack
The piercing ray only glanced me,
And in the glow of self-possession
I survive once more once again.
Through open shutters with waves surges
A blue that does not look blue to me.
Like a baby the air's nursed itself
Full of the sun's milk that melts down.
On the sea a steamer's whistle
Blows like a rutting stag.
From mountains flashes a secret army's
Visible-invisible birth.
I am not dead. I'd like to shout loud
On this day of who gets mercy,
That today each of my sails fills
Themselves once more once again.
Scheme | XAXB XAXX XXXX XAXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 01011011 000111010 10111101 110101110 011111111 101001101 11011111 1010110 11011 1101001010 10001001 111111111 11111110 10111111 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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