Analysis of Ich habe dich nie je so geliebt
Bertolt Brecht 1898 (Augsburg) – 1956 (East Berlin)
I never loved you more, ma soeur
Than as I walked away from you that evening.
The forest swallowed me, the blue forest, ma soeur
The blue forest and above it pale stars in the west.
I did not laugh, not one little bit, ma soeur
As I playfully walked towards a dark fate -
While the faces behind me
Slowly paled in the evening of the blue forest.
Everything was grand that one night, ma soeur
Never thereafter and never before -
I admit it: I was left with nothing but the big birds
And their hungry cries in the dark evening sky.
Scheme | AXAX AXXX AAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 11110111110 010101011011 0110001111001 11111110111 11100101011 1010011 101001010110 101111111 1001001001 10111111101011 01101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 526 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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