Analysis of The German Art
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
By no kind Augustus reared,
To no Medici endeared,
German art arose;
Fostering glory smiled not on her,
Ne'er with kingly smiles to sun her,
Did her blooms unclose.
No,--she went by monarchs slighted
Went unhonored, unrequited,
From high Frederick's throne;
Praise and pride be all the greater,
That man's genius did create her,
From man's worth alone.
Therefore, all from loftier mountains,
Purer wells and richer fountains,
Streams our poet-art;
So no rule to curb its rushing--
All the fuller flows it gushing
From its deep--the heart!
| Scheme | XXABBA CCDBBD EEFGGF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 1101001 10101 100101110 11101110 1011 1111110 11010 11101 10111010 11101010 11101 11110010 10101010 110101 11111110 10101110 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 535 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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