Analysis of Comfort In Tears
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
How happens it that thou art sad,
While happy all appear?
Thine eye proclaims too well that thou
Hast wept full many a tear.
"If I have wept in solitude,
None other shares my grief,
And tears to me sweet balsam are,
And give my heart relief."
Thy happy friends invite thee now,--
Oh come, then, to our breast!
And let the loss thou hast sustain'd
Be there to us confess'd!
"Ye shout, torment me, knowing not
What 'tis afflicteth me;
Ah no! I have sustained no loss,
Whate'er may wanting be."
If so it is, arise in haste!
Thou'rt young and full of life.
At years like thine, man's blest with strength.
And courage for the strife.
"Ah no! in vain 'twould be to strive,
The thing I seek is far;
It dwells as high, it gleams as fair
As yonder glitt'ring star."
The stars we never long to clasp,
We revel in their light,
And with enchantment upward gaze,
Each clear and radiant night.
"And I with rapture upward gaze,
On many a blissful day;
Then let me pass the night in tears,
Till tears are wip'd away!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 110101 11011111 1111001 1111010 110111 01111101 011101 11010111 1111101 01011101 111101 1111101 1111 11110111 101101 11110101 110111 11111111 010101 11011111 011111 11111111 11011 01110111 110011 01010101 1101001 01110101 1100101 11110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 977 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 24 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 32 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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