Analysis of Book Of Parables - In The Koran With Strange Delight
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
In the Koran with strange delight
A peacock's feather met my sight:
Thou'rt welcome in this holy place,
The highest prize on earth's wide face!
As in the stars of heaven, in thee,
God's greatness in the small we see;
For he whose gaze whole worlds bath bless'd
His eye hath even here impress'd,
And the light down in beauty dress'd,
So that e'en monarchs cannot hope
In splendour with the bird to cope.
Meekly enjoy thy happy lot,
And so deserve that holy spot!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00011101 0110111 11001101 01011111 100111001 11000111 11111111 11110101 00110101 11111101 0110111 10011101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 457 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 358 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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