Analysis of From Faust - VI. Scene--A Garden
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
DOST thou believe in God?
Doth mortal live
Who dares to say that he believes in God?
Go, bid the priest a truthful answer give,
Go, ask the wisest who on earth e'er trod,--
Their answer will appear to be
Given alone in mockery.
Then thou dost not believe? This sayest thou?
Sweet love, mistake not what I utter now!
Who knows His name?
Who dares proclaim:--
Him I believe?
Who so can feel
His heart to steel
To sari believe Him not?
The All-Embracer,
The All-Sustained,
Holds and sustains He not
Thee, me, Himself?
Hang not the heavens their arch overhead?
Lies not the earth beneath us, firm?
Gleam not with kindly glances
Eternal stars on high?
Looks not mine eye deep into thine?
And do not all things
Crowd on thy head and heart,
And round thee twine, in mystery eterne,
Invisible, yet visible?
Fill, then, thy heart, however vast, with this,
And when the feeling perfecteth thy bliss,
O, call it what thou wilt,
Call it joy! heart! love! God!
No name for it I know!
'Tis feeling all--nought else;
Name is but sound and smoke,
Obscuring heaven's bright glow.
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Metre | 110101 1101 1111110101 1101010101 11010111101 11010111 10010100 111101111 1101111101 1111 1101 1101 1111 1111 1100111 011 0101 100111 1101 1101011101 11010111 1111010 010111 11111011 01111 111101 011101001 01001100 111110111 01010111 111111 111111 111111 110111 111101 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,081 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 11, 17 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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