Analysis of Dead Friend Of My Youth
Franz Werfel 1890 (Prague) – 1945 (Manhattan)
Now when you come all that way to meet me
From the country house of your death,
I know that you would remove your hat
To greet someone already old to you.
You'd only half recognize this gentleman
Whose face has become so very different.
But to me you'd burn in that former pureness
Kept young by death, a light out of boyhood.
If you would suddenly deign not to dissolve
Your highness and withdraw from my presence,
Perhaps I could simply just close my eyes then,
Perhaps I could also get down on my knees.
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Metre | 1111111111 10101111 111110111 111010111 1101101100 11101110100 1111101101 111101111 11110011101 1100011110 01111011111 01111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 504 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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