Analysis of Wisdom And Prudence

Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)



Wouldst thou, my friend, mount up to the highest summit of wisdom,
      Be not deterred by the fear, prudence thy course may deride
    That shortsighted one sees but the bank that from thee is flying,
      Not the one which ere long thou wilt attain with bold flight.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 111111101010110 11011011011101 111011101111110 1011111101111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 275
Words 49
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 51
Words per line (avg) 12
Letters per stanza (avg) 202
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet philosopher historian and playwright During the last seventeen years of his life Schiller struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe with whom he frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics and encouraged Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches this relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism They also worked together on Die Xenien The Xenies a collection of short but harshly satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe verbally attacked those persons they perceived to be enemies of their aesthetic agenda. more…

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