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.


Scheme AAaaaaAA
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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Modified on March 05, 2023

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