Analysis of Anacreon's Grave

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)



HERE where the roses blossom, where vines round the laurels are twining,
Where the turtle-dove calls, where the blithe cricket is heard,
Say, whose grave can this be, with life by all the Immortals

Beauteously planted and deck'd?--Here doth Anacreon sleep
Spring and summer and autumn rejoiced the thrice-happy minstrel,
And from the winter this mound kindly hath screen'd him at last.


Scheme XXX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101010111010110 1010111011011 11111111110010 110011111 101001001011010 01010111011111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 388
Words 65
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 3
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 52
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 30, 2023

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