Analysis of The Youth By The Brook
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Beside the brook the boy reclined
And wove his flowery wreath,
And to the waves the wreath consigned--
The waves that danced beneath.
"So fleet mine hours," he sighed, "away
Like waves that restless flow:
And so my flowers of youth decay
Like those that float below."
"Ask not why I, alone on earth,
Am sad in life's young time;
To all the rest are hope and mirth
When spring renews its prime.
Alas! the music Nature makes,
In thousand songs of gladness--
While charming all around me, wakes
My heavy heart to sadness."
"Ah! vain to me the joys that break
From spring, voluptuous are;
For only one 't is mine to seek--
The near, yet ever far!
I stretch my arms, that shadow-shape
In fond embrace to hold;
Still doth the shade the clasp escape--
The heart is unconsoled!"
"Come forth, fair friend, come forth below,
And leave thy lofty hall,
The fairest flowers the spring can know
In thy dear lap shall fall!
Clear glides the brook in silver rolled,
Sweet carols fill the air;
The meanest hut hath space to hold
A happy loving pair!"
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGGGX XHXHIJIA DKDKJLJL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 0111001 01010101 011101 111101101 111101 011101101 111101 11110111 110111 11011101 110111 01010101 010111 11010111 1101110 11110111 1101001 110111111 011101 1111111 010111 11010101 0111 11111101 011101 010100111 011111 11010101 110101 01011111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,166 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 199 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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