Analysis of I Want To Go With The One I Love

Bertolt Brecht 1898 (Augsburg) – 1956 (East Berlin)



Ich will mit dem gehen, den ich liebe.
Ich will nicht ausrechnen, was es kostet.
Ich will nicht nachdenken, ob es gut ist.
Ich will nicht wissen, ob er mich liebt.
Ich will mit ihm gehen, den ich liebe.

I want to go with the one I love.
I do not want to calculate the cost.
I do not want to think about whether it's good.
I do not want to know whether he loves me.
I want to go with whom I love.


Scheme ABBBA CBBXC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1111111111 1111111 11111111 11111011 1111111111 111110111 111111001 111111011011 11111110111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 417
Words 88
Sentences 11
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 148
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Bertolt Brecht

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