Analysis of How Heavy The Days
Hermann Hesse 1877 (Calw) – 1962 (Montagnola)
How heavy the days are.
There's not a fire that can warm me,
Not a sun to laugh with me,
Everything bare,
Everything cold and merciless,
And even the beloved, clear
Stars look desolately down,
Since I learned in my heart that
Love can die.
Translated by James Wright
Submitted by Holt
| Scheme | XAAXXXXXX X X |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110011 110101111 1011111 101 1010100 0100011 1111 1110111 111 010111 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 282 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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