Analysis of Archimedes.
Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)
To Archimedes once a scholar came,
"Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;
The godlike art which gives such boons to toil,
And showers such fruit upon thy native soil;
The godlike art that girt the town when all
Rome's vengeance burst in thunder on the wall!"
"Thou call'st art godlike it is so, in truth,
And was," replied the master to the youth,
"Ere yet its secrets were applied to use
Ere yet it served beleaguered Syracuse:
Ask'st thou from art, but what the art is worth?
The fruit? for fruit go cultivate the earth.
He who the goddess would aspire unto,
Must not the goddess as the woman woo!"
| Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGGHH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010101 1111011111 011111111 01011011101 011110111 1101010101 1111111101 0101010101 1111000111 111101010 11111110111 011111001 1101010110 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 597 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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