Analysis of From Iphigenia In Tauris
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
ACT IV. SCENE 5.
SONG OF THE FATES.
The deities dread!
The mastery hold they
In hands all-eternal,
And use them, unquestioned,
What manner they like.
Let him fear them doubly,
Whom they have uplifted!
On cliffs and on clouds, oh,
Round tables all-golden,
he seats are made ready.
When rises contention,
The guests are humid downwards
With shame and dishonor
To deep depths of midnight,
And vainly await they,
Bound fast in the darkness,
A just condemnation.
But they remain ever
In firmness unshaken
Round tables all-golden.
On stride they from mountain
To mountain far distant:
From out the abysses'
Dark jaws, the breath rises
Of torment-choked Titans
Up tow'rds them, like incense
In light clouds ascending.
The rulers immortal
Avert from whole peoples
Their blessing-fraught glances,
And shun, in the children,
To trace the once cherish'd,
Still, eloquent features
Their ancestors wore.
Thus chanted the Parae;
The old man, the banish'd,
In gloomy vault lying,
Their song overheareth,
Sons, grandsons remembereth,
And shaketh his head.
Scheme | x a bcdxx exxFe fxgxcxf gfFfxaxxxh dxxfixx gihccb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1101 01001 010011 011010 011010 11011 111110 111100 110111 110110 111110 110010 0111010 110010 11111 010011 110010 01010 110110 010010 110110 111110 110110 1101 110110 11110 111101 011010 010010 011110 110110 010010 110110 110010 1101 11001 011010 010110 111 111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,006 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 5, 5, 7, 10, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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