Analysis of The Soldier's Consolation
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
No! in truth there's here no lack:
White the bread, the maidens black!
To another town, next night:
Black the bread, the maidens white!
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Balliol rhyme Quatrain Tanaga |
| Metre | 1011111 1010101 1010111 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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