Analysis of Lose The Day Loitering
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
Lose the day loitering,'twill be the same story
To-morrow, and the next more dilatory,
For indecision brings its own delays,
And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute!
What you can do, or think you can, begin it!
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated;
Begin it, and the work will be completed
| Scheme | AABBCDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101100110110 1100011100 1001011101 01110101011 11010111010 11111111011 10010101110 01100111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 344 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 266 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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