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
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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