Analysis of Majestas Populi
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
Majesty of the nature of man! In crowds shall I seek thee?
'Tis with only a few that thou hast made thine abode.
Only a few ever count; the rest are but blanks of no value,
And the prizes are hid 'neath the vain stir that they make.
Scheme | ABCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101011011111 1110011111101 1001101011111110 0010111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 254 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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