Analysis of Breadth And Depth
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Full many a shining wit one sees,
With tongue on all things well conversing;
The what can charm, the what can please,
In every nice detail rehearsing.
Their raptures so transport the college,
It seems one honeymoon of knowledge.
Yet out they go in silence where
They whilom held their learned prate;
Ah! he who would achieve the fair,
Or sow the embryo of the great,
Must hoard--to wait the ripening hour--
In the least point the loftiest power.
With wanton boughs and pranksome hues,
Aloft in air aspires the stem;
The glittering leaves inhale the dews,
But fruits are not concealed in them.
From the small kernel's undiscerned repose
The oak that lords it o'er the forest grows.
Scheme | ABABXX CDCDEE FGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010111 111111010 01110111 0100101010 11101010 11110110 11110101 111111 11110101 11010101 1111010010 00110110 1101011 010101001 010010101 11110101 1011101 01111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 751 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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