Analysis of Greekism
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Scarce has the fever so chilly of Gallomania departed,
When a more burning attack in Grecomania breaks out.
Greekism,--what did it mean?--'Twas harmony, reason, and clearness!
Patience,--good gentlemen, pray, ere ye of Greekism speak!
'Tis for an excellent cause ye are fighting, and all that I ask for
Is that with reason it ne'er may be a laughing-stock made.
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011011010 10110010111 1111111001001 101100111111 11110011110011111 11110111101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 384 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 280 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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