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
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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