Analysis of Genial Impulse
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
THUS roll I, never taking ease,
My tub, like Saint Diogenes,
Now serious am, now seek to please;
Now love and hate in turn one sees;
The motives now are those, now these;
Now nothings, now realities.
Thus roll I, never taking ease,
My tub, like Saint Diogenes.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11111 110011111 11010111 01011111 110110 11110101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 261 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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