Analysis of Valediction
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
I ONCE was fond of fools,
And bid them come each day;
Then each one brought his tools
The carpenter to play;
The roof to strip first choosing,
Another to supply,
The wood as trestles using,
To move it by-and-by,
While here and there they ran,
And knock'd against each other;
To fret I soon began,
My anger could not smother,
So cried, "Get out, ye fools!"
At this they were offended
Then each one took his tools,
And so our friendship ended.
Since that, I've wiser been,
And sit beside my door;
When one of them is seen,
I cry, "Appear no more!"
"Hence, stupid knave!" I bellow:
At this he's angry too:
"You impudent old fellow!
And pray, sir, who are you?
Along the streets we riot,
And revel at the fair;
But yet we're pretty quiet,
And folks revile us ne'er.
Don't call us names, then, please!"--
At length I meet with ease,
For now they leave my door--
'Tis better than before!
Scheme | A BA BC DC DE FE FA GA G X HX HI JI JK LK LMM HH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 011111 111111 010011 0111110 010101 011110 111101 110111 0101110 111101 1101110 111111 1110010 111111 01101010 111101 010111 111111 110111 1101110 111101 11110 011111 0101110 010101 1111010 010111 111111 111111 111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 858 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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