Analysis of Answers In A Game Of Questions

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



IN the small and great world too,

What most charms a woman's heart?
It is doubtless what is new,

For its blossoms joy impart;
Nobler far is what is true,

For fresh blossoms it can shoot

Even in the time of fruit.

THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN.

With the Nymphs in wood and cave

Paris was acquainted well,
Till Zeus sent, to make him rave,

Three of those in Heav'n who dwell;
And the choice more trouble gave

Than e'er fell to mortal lot,

Whether in old times or not.

Tenderly a woman view,

And thoult win her, take my word;
He who's quick and saucy too,

Will of all men be preferr'd;
Who ne'er seems as if he knew

If he pleases, if he charms,--

He 'tis injures, he 'tis harms.

Manifold is human strife,

Human passion, human pain;
Many a blessing yet is rife,

Many pleasures still remain.
Yet the greatest bliss in life,

And the richest prize we find,

Is a good, contented mind.

THE MERRY COUNSEL.

He by whom man's foolish will

Is each day review'd and blamed,
Who, when others fools are still,

Is himself a fool proclaim'd,--
Ne'er at mill was beast's back press'd

With a heavier load than he.
What I feel within my breast

That in truth's the thing for me!


Scheme A BA BA C C X D ED ED F F A GA GA H H I JI JI K K X L ML MN ON O
Poetic Form
Metre 0010111 1110101 1110111 1110101 1011111 1110111 1000111 01100 1010101 1010101 1111111 1110111 0011101 11011101 1001111 1000101 0110111 1110101 1111101 1111111 1110111 1110111 101101 1010101 10010111 1010101 1010101 0010111 1010101 01010 1111101 1110101 1110111 1010101 1111111 10100111 1110111 1010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,155
Words 227
Sentences 14
Stanzas 27
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 38
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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