Analysis of Astronomical Writings
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Oh, how infinite, how unspeakably great, are the heavens!
Yet by frivolity's hand downwards the heavens are pulled!
Scheme | AB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001111010 11111001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 128 |
Words | 20 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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