Analysis of To Astronomers
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Prate not to me so much of suns and of nebulous bodies;
Think ye Nature but great, in that she gives thee to count?
Though your object may be the sublimest that space holds within it,
Yet, my good friends, the sublime dwells not in the regions of space.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111110110010 1110110111111 11101101111011 111100111001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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