Analysis of In Summer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
How plain and height
With dewdrops are bright!
How pearls have crown'd
The plants all around!
How sighs the breeze
Thro' thicket and trees!
How loudly in the sun's clear rays
The sweet birds carol forth their lays!
But, ah! above,
Where saw I my love,
Within her room,
Small, mantled in gloom,
Enclosed around,
Where sunlight was drown'd,
How little there was earth to me,
With all its beauteous majesty!
| Scheme | AABBCCDD EEFFBBGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1111 1111 01101 1101 11001 11000111 01110111 1101 11111 0101 1101 0101 1111 11011111 1111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 397 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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