Analysis of Love's Distresses
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
WHO will hear me? Whom shall I lament to?
Who would pity me that heard my sorrows?
Ah, the lip that erst so many raptures
Used to taste, and used to give responsive,
Now is cloven, and it pains me sorely;
And it is not thus severely wounded
By my mistress having caught me fiercely,
And then gently bitten me, intending
To secure her friend more firmly to her:
No, my tender lip is crack'd thus, only
By the winds, o'er rime and frost proceeding,
Pointed, sharp, unloving, having met me.
Now the noble grape's bright juice commingled
With the bee's sweet juice, upon the fire
Of my hearth, shall ease me of my torment.
Ah, what use will all this be, if with it
Love adds not a drop of his own balsam?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111011 1110111110 101111101 1110111010 111011110 0111101010 1110101110 0110101010 1010111010 1110111110 10110101010 10111011 1010111010 1011101010 111111111 1111111111 1110111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 692 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 538 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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