Analysis of Love And Desire
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Rightly said, Schlosser! Man loves what he has; what he has not, desireth;
None but the wealthy minds love; poor minds desire alone.
Scheme | AB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101111111111 11010111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 141 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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