Analysis of Next Year's Spring
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
THE bed of flowers
Loosens amain,
The beauteous snowdrops
Droop o'er the plain.
The crocus opens
Its glowing bud,
Like emeralds others,
Others, like blood.
With saucy gesture
Primroses flare,
And roguish violets,
Hidden with care;
And whatsoever
There stirs and strives,
The Spring's contented,
If works and thrives.
'Mongst all the blossoms
That fairest are,
My sweetheart's sweetness
Is sweetest far;
Upon me ever
Her glances light,
My song they waken,
My words make bright,
An ever open
And blooming mind,
In sport, unsullied,
In earnest, kind.
Though roses and lilies
By Summer are brought,
Against my sweetheart
Prevails he nought.
Scheme | A BA BX CA CD EX ED FC F X GX GD HB HB IX IX XX C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110 101 011 11001 01010 1101 11010 1011 11010 101 01100 1011 0010 1101 01010 1101 11010 1101 1110 1101 01110 0101 11110 1111 11010 0101 01010 0101 110010 11011 0111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 28 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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