Analysis of The Loving One Once More

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)



WHY do I o'er my paper once more bend?
Ask not too closely, dearest one, I pray
For, to speak truth, I've nothing now to say;
Yet to thy hands at length 'twill come, dear friend.
Since I can come not with it, what I send
My undivided heart shall now convey,
With all its joys, hopes, pleasures, pains, to-day:
All this hath no beginning, hath no end.
Henceforward I may ne'er to thee confide
How, far as thought, wish, fancy, will, can reach,
My faithful heart with thine is surely blended.
Thus stood I once enraptured by thy side,
Gazed on thee, and said nought. What need of speech?
My very being in itself was ended.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11110110111 1111010111 1111110111 1111111111 1111111111 101011101 1111110111 1111010111 11111101 1111110111 11011111010 1111010111 1110111111 11010001110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 615
Words 119
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 470
Words per stanza (avg) 117
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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