Analysis of The Pariah - The Pariah's Prayer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
DREADED Brama, lord of might!
All proceed from thee alone;
Thou art he who judgeth right!
Dost thou none but Brahmins own?
Do but Rajahs come from thee?
None but those of high estate?
Didst not thou the ape create,
Aye, and even such as we?
We are not of noble kind,
For with woe our lot is rife;
And what others deadly find
Is our only source of life.
Let this be enough for men,
Let them, if they will, despise us;
But thou, Brama, thou shouldst prize us,
All are equal in thy ken.
Now that, Lord, this prayer is said,
As thy child acknowledge me;
Or let one be born in-stead,
Who may link me on to thee!
Didst not thou a Bayadere
As a goddess heavenward raise?
And we too to swell thy praise,
Such a miracle would hear.
Scheme | A BA BC D DC E FE FG H HG I CI CJ K KJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 1011101 111111 111111 111111 1111101 1110101 1010111 1111101 11110111 0110101 11010111 1110111 11111011 1111111 1110011 1111111 1110101 1111101 1111111 11101 101011 0111111 1010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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