Analysis of At Midnight Hour
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
AT midnight hour I went, not willingly,
A little, little boy, yon churchyard past,
To Father Vicar's house; the stars on high
On all around their beauteous radiance cast,
At midnight hour.
And when, in journeying o'er the path of life,
My love I follow'd, as she onward moved,
With stars and northern lights o'er head in strife,
Going and coming, perfect bliss I proved
At midnight hour.
Until at length the full moon, lustre-fraught,
Burst thro' the gloom wherein she was enshrined;
And then the willing, active, rapid thought
Around the past, as round the future twined,
At midnight hour.
Scheme | x ax a B c dc d B e fe f B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111100 010101111 110110111 1101111001 1110 010100100111 1111011101 11010110101 1001001111 1110 0111011101 1101011101 0101010101 0101110101 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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