Analysis of Book Of Contemplation - Firdusi

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



OH world, with what baseness and guilt thou art rife!

Thou nurtures, trainest, and illest the while.

He only whom Allah doth bless with his smile
Is train'd and is nurtured with riches and life.


Scheme A B BA
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101111 11010101 11011011111 11011011001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 199
Words 37
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 51
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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