Analysis of The Best State

Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)



'How can I know the best state?'
        In the way that thou know'st the best woman;
     Namely, my friend, that the world ever is silent of both.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 1111011 00111110110 10111011011011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 154
Words 30
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet philosopher historian and playwright During the last seventeen years of his life Schiller struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe with whom he frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics and encouraged Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches this relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism They also worked together on Die Xenien The Xenies a collection of short but harshly satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe verbally attacked those persons they perceived to be enemies of their aesthetic agenda. more…

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