Analysis of The Sower
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Sure of the spring that warms them into birth,
The golden seeds thou trustest to the earth;
And dost thou doubt the eternal spring sublime,
For deeds--the seeds which wisdom sows in time.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101111011 010111101 01110010101 1101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 204 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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