Analysis of To Lida
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
THE only one whom, Lida, thou canst love,
Thou claim'st, and rightly claim'st, for only thee;
He too is wholly thine; since doomed to rove
Far from thee, in life's turmoils nought I see
Save a thin veil, through which thy form I view,
As though in clouds; with kindly smile and true,
It cheers me, like the stars eterne that gleam
Across the northern-lights' far-flick'ring beam.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110111 111010111101 1111011111 111011111 1011111111 1101110101 111101111 0101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 380 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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