Analysis of Two Descriptions Of Action
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Do what is good, and humanity's godlike plant thou wilt nourish;
Plan what is fair, and thou'lt strew seeds of the godlike around.
Scheme | AB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100100111110 1111011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 143 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 51 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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