Analysis of Morning Hymn

Franz Werfel 1890 (Prague) – 1945 (Manhattan)



I am not dead. Through slit and crack
The piercing ray only glanced me,
And in the glow of self-possession
I survive once more once again.

Through open shutters with waves surges
A blue that does not look blue to me.
Like a baby the air's nursed itself
Full of the sun's milk that melts down.

On the sea a steamer's whistle
Blows like a rutting stag.
From mountains flashes a secret army's
Visible-invisible birth.

I am not dead. I'd like to shout loud
On this day of who gets mercy,
That today each of my sails fills
Themselves once more once again.


Scheme XAXB XAXX XXXX XAXB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 01011011 000111010 10111101 110101110 011111111 101001101 11011111 1010110 11011 1101001010 10001001 111111111 11111110 10111111 0111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 545
Words 105
Sentences 9
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Franz Werfel

Franz Viktor Werfel was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet whose career spanned World War I, the Interwar period, and World War II. more…

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