Analysis of Rules For Monarchs
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
IF men are never their thoughts to employ,
Take care to provide them a life full of joy;
But if to some profit and use thou wouldst bend them,
Take care to shear them, and then defend them.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111011101 11101101111 111110011111 1111101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 194 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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