Analysis of From An Album Of 1604
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
HOPE provides wings to thought, and love to hope.
Rise up to Cynthia, love, when night is clearest,
And say, that as on high her figure changeth,
So, upon earth, my joy decays and grows.
And whisper in her ear with modest softness,
How doubt oft hung its head, and truth oft wept.
And oh ye thoughts, distrustfully inclined,
If ye are therefore by the loved one chided,
Answer: 'tis true ye change, but alter not,
As she remains the same, yet changeth ever.
Doubt may invade the heart, but poisons not,
For love is sweeter, by suspicion flavour'd.
If it with anger overcasts the eye,
And heaven's bright purity perversely blackens,
Then zephyr-sighs straight scare the clouds away,
And, changed to tears, dissolve them into rain.
Thought, hope, and love remain there as before,
Till Cynthia gleams upon me as of old.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJIBKLMNOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110111 111100111110 0111110101 1011110101 01000111010 1111110111 0111101 1111101110 1011111101 1101011110 1101011101 1111010101 11110101 010110001010 1101110101 0111011011 1101011101 11001011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 807 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 635 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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