Analysis of The Convivial Book - Can The Koran From Eternity Be?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
'Tis worth not a thought!
Can the Koran a creation, then, be?
Of that, I know nought!
Yet that the book of all books it must be,
I believe, as a Mussulman ought.
That from Eternity wine, though, must be,
I ever have thought;
That 'twas ordain'd, ere the Angels, to be,
As a truth may be taught.
Drinkers, however these matters may be,
Gaze on God's face, fearing nought.
Scheme | AB AB AB AB AB A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1001001011 11111 1101111111 1011011 1101001111 11011 1101101011 101111 101011011 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 368 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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