Analysis of The Key

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



Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
      Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 111101010110 1110111101111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 133
Words 22
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 49
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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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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