Analysis of Charade
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
Two words there 'are, both short, of beauty rare,
Whose sounds our lips so often love to frame,
But which with clearness never can proclaim
The things whose own peculiar stamp they bear.
'Tis well in days of age and youth so fair,
One on the other boldly to inflame;
And if those words together link'd we name,
A blissful rapture we discover there.
But now to give them pleasure do I seek,
And in myself my happiness would find;
I hope in silence, but I hope for this:
Gently, as loved one's names, those words to speak
To see them both within one image shrin'd,
Both in one being to embrace with bliss.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 11101110111 111110101 0111010111 1101110111 1101010101 0111010111 0101010101 1111110111 001110011 1101011111 1011111111 1111011101 1011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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