Analysis of The Coy One
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
ONE Spring-morning bright and fair,
Roam'd a shepherdess and sang;
Young and beauteous, free from care,
Through the fields her clear notes rang:
So, Ia, Ia! le ralla.
Of his lambs some two or three
Thyrsis offer'd for a kiss;
First she eyed him roguishly,
Then for answer sang but this:
So, Ia, Ia! le ralla.
Ribbons did the next one offer,
And the third, his heart so true
But, as with the lambs, the scoffer
Laugh'd at heart and ribbons too,--
Still 'twas Ia! le ralla.
Scheme | a ba bC x dc dC x ea ec |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 10101 101111 1010111 1101001 1111111 110101 11111 1110111 1101001 10101110 0011111 1110101 1110101 111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 465 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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