Analysis of Book Of Suleika - The Loving One Speaks
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
THE LOVING ONE SPEAKS.
AND wherefore sends not
The horseman-captain
His heralds hither
Each day, unfailing?
Yet hath he horses,
He writes well.
He waiteth Tali,
And Neski knows he
To write with beauty
On silken tablets.
I'd deem him present,
Had I his words.
The sick One will not,
Will not recover
From her sweet sorrow;
She, when she heareth
That her true lover
Grows well, falls sick.
Scheme | X AXB XXC CDDXXX ABXXBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011 0111 01010 11010 11010 11110 111 111 0111 11110 11010 11110 1111 01111 11010 10110 1111 10110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 377 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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