Analysis of To The Distant One
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
AND have I lost thee evermore?
Hast thou, oh fair one, from me flown?
Still in mine ear sounds, as of yore,
Thine ev'ry word, thine ev'ry tone.
As when at morn the wand'rer's eye
Attempts to pierce the air in vain,
When, hidden in the azure sky,
The lark high o'er him chaunts his strain:
So do I cast my troubled gaze
Through bush, through forest, o'er the lea;
Thou art invoked by all my lays;
Oh, come then, loved one, back to me!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110 11111111 10111111 111111 1111011 01110101 11000101 011101111 11111101 111101001 11011111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 430 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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