Analysis of Dithyramb
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Believe me, together
The bright gods come ever,
Still as of old;
Scarce see I Bacchus, the giver of joy,
Than comes up fair Eros, the laugh-loving boy,
And Phoebus, the stately, behold!
They come near and nearer,
The heavenly ones all--
The gods with their presence
Fill earth as their hall!
Say, how shall I welcome,
Human and earthborn,
Sons of the sky?
Pour out to me--pour the full life that ye live!
What to ye, O ye gods! can the mortal one give?
The joys can dwell only
In Jupiter's palace--
Brimmed bright with your nectar,
Oh, reach me the chalice!
"Hebe, the chalice
Fill full to the brim!
Steep his eyes--steep his eyes in the bath of the dew,
Let him dream, while the Styx is concealed from his view,
That the life of the gods is for him!"
It murmurs, it sparkles,
The fount of delight;
The bosom grows tranquil--
The eye becomes bright.
Scheme | AABCCB ADXD XXXXX XXAE EFGGF XHXH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010 011110 1111 1111001011 11111001101 01001001 111010 010011 011110 11111 111110 1001 1101 11111011111 111111101011 011110 010010 111110 111010 1010 11101 111111001101 111101101111 101101111 110110 01101 010110 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,089 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
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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