Analysis of Rhymed Distichs
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
WHO trusts in God,
Fears not His rod.
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THIS truth may be by all believed:
Whom God deceives, is well deceived.
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HOW? when? and where?-No answer comes from high;
Thou wait'st for the Because, and yet thou ask'st not Why?
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IF the whole is ever to gladden thee,
That whole in the smallest thing thou must see.
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WATER its living strength first shows,
When obstacles its course oppose.
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TRANSPARENT appears the radiant air,
Though steel and stone in its breast it may bear;
At length they'll meet with fiery power,
And metal and stones on the earth will shower.
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WHATE'ER a living flame may surround,
No longer is shapeless, or earthly bound.
'Tis now invisible, flies from earth,
And hastens on high to the place of its birth.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FFGG HHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1111 1 11111101 1111101 1 1101110111 11110010111111 1 1011101101 1100101111 1 10110111 11001101 1 0100101001 1101011111 1111110010 01001101110 1 100101101 1101101101 110100111 01011101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 725 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 558 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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