Analysis of The Knights Of St. John
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Oh, nobly shone the fearful cross upon your mail afar,
When Rhodes and Acre hailed your might, O lions of the war!
When leading many a pilgrim horde, through wastes of Syrian gloom;
Or standing with the cherub's sword before the holy tomb.
Yet on your forms the apron seemed a nobler armor far,
When by the sick man's bed ye stood, O lions of the war!
When ye, the high-born, bowed your pride to tend the lowly weakness,
The duty, though it brought no fame, fulfilled by Christian meekness--
Religion of the cross, thou blend'st, as in a single flower,
The twofold branches of the palm--humility and power.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101011101 11010111110101 1101001011111001 1101011010101 11110101010101 11011111110101 110111111101010 01011111011101 0101011111001010 011101010100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 605 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 471 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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