Analysis of To The Golden Heart That He Wore Around His Neck
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
OH thou token loved of joys now perish'd
That I still wear from my neck suspended,
Art thou stronger than our spirit-bond so cherish'd?
Or canst thou prolong love's days untimely ended?
Lily, I fly from thee! I still am doom'd to range
Thro' countries strange,
Thro' distant vales and woods, link'd on to thee!
Ah, Lily's heart could surely never fall
So soon away from me!
As when a bird bath broken from his thrall,
And seeks the forest green,
Proof of imprisonment he bears behind him,
A morsel of the thread once used to bind him;
The free-born bird of old no more is seen,
For he another's prey bath been.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111110 1111111010 1110110101110 111011101010 101111111111 1101 1101011111 111110101 110111 1101110111 010101 11010011011 01010111111 0111111111 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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