Analysis of Written In A Young Lady's Album
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Sweet friend, the world, like some fair infant blessed,
Radiant with sportive grace, around thee plays;
Yet 'tis not as depicted in thy breast--
Not as within thy soul's fair glass, its rays
Are mirrored. The respectful fealty
That my heart's nobleness hath won for thee,
The miracles thou workest everywhere,
The charms thy being to this life first lent,--
To it, mere charms to reckon thou'rt content,
To us, they seem humanity so fair.
The witchery sweet of ne'er-polluted youth,
The talisman of innocence and truth--
Him I would see, who these to scorn can dare!
Thou revellest joyously in telling o'er
The blooming flowers that round thy path are strown,--
The glad, whom thou hast made so evermore,--
The souls that thou hast conquered for thine own.
In thy deceit so blissful be thou glad!
Ne'er let a waking disenchantment sad
Hurl thee despairing from thy dream's proud flight!
Like the fair flowerets that thy beds perfume,
Observe them, but ne'er touch them as they bloom,--
Plant them, but only for the distant sight.
Created only to enchant the eye,
In faded beauty at thy feet they'll lie,
The nearer thee, the nearer their long night!
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Metre | 1101111101 1001110111 1111010011 1101111111 1100010100 11111111 01001110 0111011111 1111110110 1111010011 011110101 0100110001 1111111111 11101010 01010111111 011111110 0111110111 0101110111 1101000101 1101011111 101111101 0111111111 1111010101 0101010101 0101011111 0101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,142 |
Words | 204 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 897 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 198 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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