Analysis of The Fugitive
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
The air is perfumed with the morning's fresh breeze,
From the bush peer the sunbeams all purple and bright,
While they gleam through the clefts of the dark-waving trees,
And the cloud-crested mountains are golden with light.
With joyful, melodious, ravishing, strain,
The lark, as he wakens, salutes the glad sun,
Who glows in the arms of Aurora again,
And blissfully smiling, his race 'gins to run.
All hail, light of day!
Thy sweet gushing ray
Pours down its soft warmth over pasture and field;
With hues silver-tinged
The meadows are fringed,
And numberless suns in the dewdrop revealed.
Young Nature invades
The whispering shades,
Displaying each ravishing charm;
The soft zephyr blows,
And kisses the rose,
The plain is sweet-scented with balm.
How high from yon city the smoke-clouds ascend!
Their neighing, and snorting, and bellowing blend
The horses and cattle;
The chariot-wheels rattle,
As down to the valley they take their mad way;
And even the forest where life seems to move,
The eagle, and falcon, and hawk soar above,
And flutter their pinions, in heaven's bright ray.
In search of repose
From my heart-rending woes,
Oh, where shall my sad spirit flee?
The earth's smiling face,
With its sweet youthful grace,
A tomb must, alas, be for me!
Arise, then, thou sunlight of morning, and fling
O'er plain and o'er forest thy purple-dyed beams!
Thou twilight of evening, all noiselessly sing
In melody soft to the world as it dreams!
Ah, sunlight of morning, to me thou but flingest
Thy purple-dyed beams o'er the grave of the past!
Ah, twilight of evening, thy strains thou but singest
To one whose deep slumbers forever must last!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101101011 10110111001 111101101101 001101011011 11001001001 0111101011 11001101001 01001011111 11111 11101 11111101001 11101 0111 01100101 11001 01001 01011001 01101 01001 01111011 11111001101 1101001001 010010 0100110 11101011111 01001011111 01001001101 0101101011 01101 111101 11111101 01101 111101 01101111 0111111001 1010101011011 11110111 01001101111 1111011111 110111001101 1111011111 1111101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,636 |
Words | 280 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 6, 8, 6, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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