Analysis of Songs
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
SONGS are like painted window-panes!
In darkness wrapp'd the church remains,
If from the market-place we view it;
Thus sees the ignoramus through it.
No wonder that he deems it tame,--
And all his life 'twill be the same.
But let us now inside repair,
And greet the holy Chapel there!
At once the whole seems clear and bright,
Each ornament is bathed in light,
And fraught with meaning to the sight.
God's children! thus your fortune prize,
Be edified, and feast your eyes!
Scheme | AABBCC DDEEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 01010101 110101111 11001011 11011111 01111101 11110101 01010101 11011101 11001101 01110101 11011101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 469 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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