Analysis of The Maiden's Lament
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
The clouds fast gather,
The forest-oaks roar--
A maiden is sitting
Beside the green shore,--
The billows are breaking with might, with might,
And she sighs aloud in the darkling night,
Her eyelid heavy with weeping.
"My heart's dead within me,
The world is a void;
To the wish it gives nothing,
Each hope is destroyed.
I have tasted the fulness of bliss below
I have lived, I have loved,--Thy child, oh take now,
Thou Holy One, into Thy keeping!"
"In vain is thy sorrow,
In vain thy tears fall,
For the dead from their slumbers
They ne'er can recall;
Yet if aught can pour comfort and balm in thy heart,
Now that love its sweet pleasures no more can impart,
Speak thy wish, and thou granted shalt find it!"
"Though in vain is my sorrow,
Though in vain my tears fall,--
Though the dead from their slumbers
They ne'er can recall,
Yet no balm is so sweet to the desolate heart,
When love its soft pleasures no more can impart,
As the torments that love leaves behind it!"
Scheme | xabaccb xdbdexb efgFhhi efgFhhi |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110 01011 010110 01011 0101101111 011010011 0110110 111011 01101 1011110 11101 1110011101 11111111111 110101110 011110 01111 101111 1111 111111001011 111111011101 1110110111 1011110 101111 101111 1111 111111101001 11111011101 101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,171 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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