Analysis of To The Kind Reader
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
No one talks more than a Poet;
Fain he'd have the people know it.
Praise or blame he ever loves;
None in prose confess an error,
Yet we do so, void of terror,
In the Muses' silent groves.
What I err'd in, what corrected,
What I suffer'd, what effected,
To this wreath as flow'rs belong;
For the aged, and the youthful,
And the vicious, and the truthful,
All are fair when viewed in song.
| Scheme | XX XAA X BB CDD C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111010 11101011 1111101 10101110 11111110 0010101 11101010 11101010 1111101 1010010 00100010 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 384 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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