Analysis of The Freebooter
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
No door has my house,
No house has my door;
And in and out ever
I carry my store.
No grate has my kitchen,
No kitchen my grate;
Yet roasts it and boils it
Both early and late.
My bed has no trestles,
My trestles no bed;
Yet merrier moments
No mortal e'er led.
My cellar is lofty,
My barn is full deep,
From top to the bottom,--
There lie I and sleep.
And soon as I waken,
All moves on its race;
My place has no fixture,
My fixture no place.
Scheme | A BC B D EX E A FX F X GX G D HC H |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11111 11111 000110 11011 111110 11011 111011 11001 11111 1111 110010 110101 110110 11111 111010 11101 011110 11111 111110 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 429 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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