Analysis of From Faust - IV. Chorus Of Spirits
VANISH, dark clouds on high,
Offspring of night!
Let a more radiant beam
Through the blue ether gleam,
Charming the sight!
Would the dark clouds on high
Melt into air!
Stars glimmer tenderly,
Planets more fair
Shed their soft light.
Spirits of heav'nly birth,
Fairer than sons of earth,
Quivering emotions true
Hover above;
Yearning affections, too,
In their train move.
See how the spirit-band,
By the soft breezes fann'd,
Covers the smiling land,--
Covers the leafy grove,
Where happy lovers rove,
Deep in a dream of love,
True love that never dies!
Bowers on bowers rise,
Soft tendrils twine;
While from the press escapes,
Born of the juicy grapes,
Foaming, the wine;
And as the current flows
O'er the bright stones it goes,--
Leaving the hilly lands
Far, far behind,--
Into a sea expands,
Loving to wind
Round the green mountain's base;
And the glad-winged race,
Rapture sip in,
As they the sunny light,
And the fair islands bright,
Hasten to win,
That on the billows play
With sweet deceptive ray,
Where in glad choral song
Shout the exulting throng;
Where on the verdant plain
Dancers we see,
Spreading themselves amain
Over the lea.
Some boldly climbing are
O'er the steep brake,
Others are floating far
O'er the smooth lake.
All for a purpose move,
All with life teem,
While the sweet stars above
Scheme | A BCC BA DE D BFFG HG IJJJKKHLL MNN MOOP QP QRR SBB STTUUX EM EV WV WI CH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 101111 111 1011001 101101 1001 101111 1011 110100 1011 1111 10111 101111 1000101 1001 100101 0111 110101 101101 100101 100101 110101 100111 111101 101101 111 110101 110101 1001 010101 1001111 100101 1101 010101 1011 101101 00111 1010 110101 001101 1011 110101 110101 101101 100101 110101 1011 10011 1001 110101 10011 101101 10011 110101 1111 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,275 |
Words | 232 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 4, 2, 9, 3, 4, 2, 3, 3, 6, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 55 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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