Analysis of To Lina
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
SHOULD these songs, love, as they fleet,
Chance again to reach thy hand,
At the piano take thy seat,
Where thy friend was wont to stand!
Sweep with finger bold the string,
Then the book one moment see:
But read not! do nought but sing!
And each page thine own will be!
Ah, what grief the song imparts
With its letters, black on white,
That, when breath'd by thee, our hearts
Now can break and now delight!
Scheme | A BA B C DC D E FE F |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1011111 10010111 1111111 1110101 1011101 1111111 0111111 1110101 1110111 11111101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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