Analysis of Book Of Love - One More Pair

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)



LOVE is indeed a glorious prize!
What fairer guerdon meets our eyes?--
Though neither wealth nor power are thine,
A very hero thou dost shine.
As of the prophet, they will tell,
Wamik and Asia's tale as well.--
They'll tell not of them,--they'll but give
Their names, which now are all that live.
The deeds they did, the toils they proved
No mortal knows! But that they loved
This know we. Here's the story true
Of Wamik and of Asia too.


Scheme AABBCCDEFGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 110101001 11011101 110111011 01010111 11010111 1010111 11111111 11111111 01110111 11011111 11110101 1101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 434
Words 86
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 333
Words per stanza (avg) 81
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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