Analysis of The Favor Of The Moment
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Once more, then, we meet
In the circles of yore;
Let our song be as sweet
In its wreaths as before,
Who claims the first place
In the tribute of song?
The God to whose grace
All our pleasures belong.
Though Ceres may spread
All her gifts on the shrine,
Though the glass may be red
With the blush of the vine,
What boots--if the while
Fall no spark on the hearth;
If the heart do not smile
With the instinct of mirth?--
From the clouds, from God's breast
Must our happiness fall,
'Mid the blessed, most blest
Is the moment of all!
Since creation began
All that mortals have wrought,
All that's godlike in man
Comes--the flash of a thought!
For ages the stone
In the quarry may lurk,
An instant alone
Can suffice to the work;
An impulse give birth
To the child of the soul,
A glance stamp the worth
And the fame of the whole.
On the arch that she buildeth
From sunbeams on high,
As Iris just gildeth,
And fleets from the sky,
So shineth, so gloometh
Each gift that is ours;
The lightning illumeth--
The darkness devours!
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGIJKJKLMLMNONOIPIPHQHQHRHR |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (43%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111 001011 1101111 011101 11011 001011 01111 1101001 11011 101101 101111 101101 11101 111101 101111 101011 101111 1101001 10111 101011 101001 111011 11101 101101 11001 001011 11001 101101 11011 101101 01101 001101 101111 1111 11011 01101 1111 111110 0101 010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,007 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 40 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 789 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 193 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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