Analysis of Lobgesang

Friedrich Kalbfuss 1903 (Braunschweig) – 1945 (Bad Schwalbach)



Die Berge knien am Uferrand,
geliebter Fluss, andächtig nieder.
Du schlingst dein heit'res Liebesband
um die Gemeinschaft frommer Brüder.

Kein Wesen bleibt vor Freude stumm.
Der Wälder Orgel voll Akkorden
braust festlich ein Präludium
wie es noch nie vernommen worden.

Des Grases Geige ist gestimmt.
Das Schilf lässt seine Flöten summen.
Sogar der schiefe Birnbaum nimmt
sein Cello vor und lässt es brummen

Den Takt zu diesem Gloria
die alten Kirchturmuhren ticken.
Der Wind bläst Mundharmonika
auf den Dächerrücken.

O, Liebesband! Zur Harmonie
verbinde jede Stimme fester!
Wie eine Sehnsuchtsmelodie
rauschst du, mein Fluss, durch dies Orchester.


Scheme ABAB CDCD ADAD XDXD DBAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11111 110110 111111 1111011 111111 110011011 11111 1111110 11111 111110111 111101 110111111 1111100 1111 11111 11111 111100 11110 111 1111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 680
Words 120
Sentences 11
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Friedrich Kalbfuss

Friedrich Kalbfuss, my biological father, was a stage designer, playwright, director, artist and poet. He lived just long enough so that I could come into being. more…

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