Analysis of Three Palinodias - 03 Rain And Rainbow
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
DURING a heavy storm it chanced
That from his room a cockney glanced
At the fierce tempest as it broke,
While to his neighbour thus he spoke:
"The thunder has our awe inspired,
Our barns by lightning have been fired,--
Our sins to punish, I suppose;
But in return, to soothe our woes,
See how the rain in torrents fell,
Making the harvest promise well!
But it's a rainbow that I spy
Extending o'er the dark-grey sky?
With it I'm sure we may dispense,
The colour'd cheat! The vain pretence!"
Dame Iris straightway thus replied:
"Dost dare my beauty to deride?
In realms of space God station'd me
A type of better worlds to be
To eyes that from life's sorrows rove
In cheerful hope to Heav'n above,
And, through the mists that hover here
God and his precepts blest revere.
Do thou, then, grovel like the swine,
And to the ground thy snout confine,
But suffer the enlighten'd eye
To feast upon my majesty."
Scheme | AABBAACCDDEEFCAAGGHIJKLLEA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010111 11110101 10110111 1111111 0101101010 1011101110 101110101 100111101 11010101 10010101 1101111 010100111 11111101 0101011 1101101 11110101 01111101 01110111 11111101 01011101 01011101 1011101 11110101 01011101 11000101 11011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 700 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 165 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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