Analysis of Human Feelings
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
AH, ye gods! ye great immortals
In the spacious heavens above us!
Would ye on this earth but give us
Steadfast minds and dauntless courage
We, oh kindly ones, would leave you
All your spacious heavens above us!
| Scheme | ABBCDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111010 001010011 11111111 110110 11101111 111010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 213 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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