Analysis of To Luna
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
SISTER of the first-born light,
Type of sorrowing gentleness!
Quivering mists in silv'ry dress
Float around thy features bright;
When thy gentle foot is heard,
From the day-closed caverns then
Wake the mournful ghosts of men,
I, too, wake, and each night-bird.
O'er a field of boundless span
Looks thy gaze both far and wide.
Raise me upwards to thy side!
Grant this to a raving man!
And to heights of rapture raised,
Let the knight so crafty peep
At his maiden while asleep,
Through her lattice-window glazed.
Soon the bliss of this sweet view,
Pangs by distance caused allays;
And I gather all thy rays,
And my look I sharpen too.
Round her unveil'd limbs I see
Brighter still become the glow,
And she draws me down below,
As Endymion once drew thee.
Scheme | A X XAB C CB D E EDF G GF H I IHJ K KJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 111100 1001011 1011101 1110111 1011101 1010111 1110111 10011101 1111101 1110111 1110101 0111101 1011101 1110101 1010101 1011111 1110101 0110111 0111101 1001111 1010101 0111101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 737 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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