Analysis of Poetic Aphorisms. (From The Sinngedichte Of Friedrich Von Logau)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)
MONEY
Whereunto is money good?
Who has it not wants hardihood,
Who has it has much trouble and care,
Who once has had it has despair.
THE BEST MEDICINES
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
SIN
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.
POVERTY AND BLINDNESS
A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is;
For the former seeth no man, and the latter no man sees.
LAW OF LIFE
Live I, so live I,
To my Lord heartily,
To my Prince faithfully,
To my Neighbor honestly.
Die I, so die I.
CREEDS
Lutheran, Popish, Calvinistic, all these creeds and doctrines three
Extant are; but still the doubt is, where Christianity may be.
THE RESTLESS HEART
A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round;
If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.
CHRISTIAN LOVE
Whilom Love was like a tire, and warmth and comfort it bespoke;
But, alas! it now is quenched, and only bites us, like the smoke.
ART AND TACT
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;
Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
RETRIBUTION
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
TRUTH
When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire,
Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silences the liar.
RHYMES
If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers' ears,
They have only to bethink them that it happens so with theirs;
For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own,
They will be most highly valued where they are best and longest known.
Scheme | ABBCC XDD EEEFF XXX XGAAAG XAA XHH XII XJJ XKK XLL XXXMM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 10 11101 111111 111111001 11111101 01100 10100001 10110101 1 111111011 11111101 11111111 11111111 100010 0111011010111 10101110010111 111 11111 111100 111100 1110100 11111 1 100111110101 101110111010011 0101 0100101110101 11110111110111 101 11110100101011 101111101011101 101 0100010011101 1000101010111 010 101111101110101 1110111011111 1 111011101010110 1111111011100010 1 101111111110101 11101111110111 11111110101011 1111101011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,720 |
Words | 317 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 5, 3, 6, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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