Analysis of Under the lime tree

Walther von der Vogelweide 1170 (Austria) – 1230 (Würzburg)



Under the lime tree
On the heather,
Where we had shared a place of rest,
Still you may find there,
Lovely together,
Flowers crushed and grass down-pressed.
Beside the forest in the vale,
Tándaradéi,
Sweetly sang the nightingale.

I came to meet him
At the green:
There was my truelove come before.
Such was I greeted —
Heaven's Queen! —
That I am glad for evermore.
Had he kisses? A thousand some:
Tándaradéi,
See how red my mouth's become.

There he had fashioned
For luxury
A bed from every kind of flower.
It sets to laughing
Delightedly
Whoever comes upon that bower;
By the roses well one may,
Tándaradéi,
Mark the spot my head once lay.

If any knew
He lay with me
(May God forbid!), for shame I'd die.
What did he do?
May none but he
Ever be sure of that — and I,
And one extremely tiny bird,
Tándaradéi,
Who will, I think, not say a word.


Scheme abcxbcdEd xfgxfghEh xabxdbiEi jaejaekEk
Poetic Form
Metre 10011 1010 11110111 11111 10010 1010111 01010001 111 1010100 11111 101 1111101 11110 101 1111110 11100101 111 1111101 11110 1100 0111001110 11110 1 010101110 1010111 111 1011111 1101 1111 11011111 1111 1111 10111101 01010101 111 11111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 837
Words 163
Sentences 14
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 9, 9, 9, 9
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 159
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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