Analysis of Chill Penury And Winter's Power
Walther von der Vogelweide 1170 (Austria) – 1230 (Würzburg)
Chill penury and winter's power
Upon my soul so hard have prest,
That I would fain have seen no more
The red flow'rs that the meadows drest:
Yet, truth! 'twere hard, if I were gone,
Upon the merry-making throng,
That loud with joy was wont to ring,
And o'er the green to dance and spring!
| Scheme | XAXA XXBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 110001010 01111111 11111111 0111011 11111101 01010101 11111111 010011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 290 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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