Analysis of The Conflict
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
No! I this conflict longer will not wage,
The conflict duty claims--the giant task;--
Thy spells, O virtue, never can assuage
The heart's wild fire--this offering do not ask
True, I have sworn--a solemn vow have sworn,
That I myself will curb the self within;
Yet take thy wreath, no more it shall be worn--
Take back thy wreath, and leave me free to sin.
Rent be the contract I with thee once made;--
She loves me, loves me--forfeit be the crown!
Blessed he who, lulled in rapture's dreamy shade,
Glides, as I glide, the deep fall gladly down.
She sees the worm that my youth's bloom decays,
She sees my spring-time wasted as it flees;
And, marvelling at the rigor that gainsays
The heart's sweet impulse, my reward decrees.
Distrust this angel purity, fair soul!
It is to guilt thy pity armeth me;
Could being lavish its unmeasured whole,
It ne'er could give a gift to rival thee!
Thee--the dear guilt I ever seek to shun,
O tyranny of fate, O wild desires!
My virtue's only crown can but be won
In that last breath--when virtue's self expires!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1111010111 0101010101 1111010101 011101100111 1111010111 111110101 1111111111 1111011111 110111111 1111110101 111101101 1111011101 1101111101 1111110111 01101011 0111010101 0111010011 111111011 11010111 1111011101 1011110111 11001111010 111011111 0111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,043 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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