Analysis of I'm not saying anything against Alexander
Bertolt Brecht 1898 (Augsburg) – 1956 (East Berlin)
Timur, I hear, took the trouble to conquer the earth.
I don't understand him.
With a bit of hard liquor you can forget the earth.
I'm not saying anything against Alexander,
Only I have seen people who were remarkable,
Highly deserving of your admiration
For the fact that they were alive at all.
Great men generate too much sweat.
In all of this I see just a proof that
They couldn't stand being on their own
And smoking and drinking and the like.
And they must be too mean-spirited to get
Contentment from sitting by a woman.
| Scheme | AXA XXBX CXXXCB |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101011001 11011 1011110110101 11101001010 1011110100100 1001011010 1011100111 1110111 0111111011 110110111 010010001 01111110011 0101101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 522 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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