Analysis of The Pilgrim
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Youth's gay springtime scarcely knowing
Went I forth the world to roam--
And the dance of youth, the glowing,
Left I in my father's home,
Of my birthright, glad-believing,
Of my world-gear took I none,
Careless as an infant, cleaving
To my pilgrim staff alone.
For I placed my mighty hope in
Dim and holy words of faith,
"Wander forth--the way is open,
Ever on the upward path--
Till thou gain the golden portal,
Till its gates unclose to thee.
There the earthly and the mortal,
Deathless and divine shall be!"
Night on morning stole, on stealeth,
Never, never stand I still,
And the future yet concealeth,
What I seek, and what I will!
Mount on mount arose before me,
Torrents hemmed me every side,
But I built a bridge that bore me
O'er the roaring tempest-tide.
Towards the east I reached a river,
On its shores I did not rest;
Faith from danger can deliver,
And I trusted to its breast.
Drifted in the whirling motion,
Seas themselves around me roll--
Wide and wider spreads the ocean,
Far and farther flies the goal.
While I live is never given
Bridge or wave the goal to near--
Earth will never meet the heaven,
Never can the there be here!
Scheme | ABABACADEFCGHIHIFJFJIKIKLMLMCNCNCOCP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 1110111 00111010 1101101 1111010 1111111 1011101 1110101 11111010 1010111 10101110 1010101 11101010 111111 10100010 100111 1110111 1010111 001011 1110111 11101011 10111001 11101111 10010101 010111010 1111111 11101010 0110111 10001010 1010111 10101010 1010101 11111010 1110111 11101010 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,137 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 36 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 887 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 209 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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