Analysis of Der Scheidende
Heinrich Heine 1797 (Düsseldorf) – 1856 (Paris)
It has died in me, as it must,
Every idle, earthly lust,
My hatred too of wickedness,
Utterly now, even the sense,
Of my own, of other men’s distress –
All that’s living in me is Death!
The curtain falls, the play is done,
And my dear German public’s gone,
Wandering home, and yawning so,
Those good folk aren’t stupid though:
They’ll dine happily enough tonight,
Drink, and sing, and laugh – He’s right,
The noble hero in Homer’s book,
Who said once that the meanest schmuck,
The lowest little Philistine there,
In Stuttgart (am Neckar), is happier
Than I, son of Peleus, the hero, furled,
The shadow prince in the Underworld.
Scheme | AABCDEFGHHIIJKLMAN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 10010101 11011100 10011001 111110101 11100111 01010111 01110101 10010101 11110101 111000101 1010111 010100101 11110101 01010101 010111100 111110101 0110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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