Analysis of Hymn To The Eternal.
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
'Twixt the heavens and earth, high in the airy ocean,
In the tempest's cradle I'm borne with a rocking motion;
Clouds are towering,
Storms beneath me are lowering,
Giddily all the wonders I see,
And, O Eternal, I think of Thee!
All Thy terrible pomp, lend to the Finite now,
Mighty Nature! Oh, of Infinity, thou
Giant daughter!
Mirror God, as in water!
Tempest, oh, let thine organ-peal
God to the reasoning worm reveal!
Hark! it peals how the rocks quiver beneath its growls
Zeboath's glorious name, wildly the hurricane howls!
Graving the while
With the lightning's style
"Creatures, do ye acknowledge me?"
Spare us, Lord! We acknowledge Thee!
| Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF GGHHCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010011001010 0011011101010 11100 10111100 1101011 010101111 11100111011 10101101001 1010 1011010 10111101 110100101 111101100111 11001100101 101 1011 10110101 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 634 |
| Words | 112 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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