Analysis of Wedding Night
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
Far from the feasting, in the bedroom
Sits loyal Amor and quakes with dread:
What if the guests become too zestful,
Break the peace of the bridal bed?
A mystical and holy shimmer
Flows from his pale flames of gold;
For you both a whirl of incense
Readies pleasures manifold.
How throbs your heart as chiming timepiece
Chases noisy guests away;
Any moment, lips you burn for
Nought will utter, nought gainsay.
You hasten with her to the temple,
There to consummate your bliss;
The guardian holds aloft his flambeau,
Still and small as a taper is.
How she trembles with your kisses,
Bosom, lips, and cheeks, and brow:
His severities are shivers,
Your derring-do is duty now.
Quick, Amor helps you undress her,
He has half your enterprise;
Roguish, then, but also modest,
He'll be closing both his eyes.
Scheme | ABCBDEXE XFXFCXAX XGXGDHXH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010001 110100111 110101110 10110101 010001010 1111111 11101101 101010 1111111 1010101 10101111 111011 110101010 1110011 010010111 10110101 1111110 1010101 11110 11011101 11011010 111110 1111010 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 785 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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