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!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XXBB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 290
Words 57
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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