Book Of Suleika - These Tufted Branches
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)
THESE tufted branches fair
Observe, my loved one, well!
And see the fruits they bear
In green and prickly shell!
They've hung roll'd up, till now,
Unconsciously and still;
A loosely-waving bough
Doth rock them at its will.
Yet, ripening from within.
The kernel brown swells fast;
It seeks the air to win,
It seeks the sun at last.
With joy it bursts its thrall,
The shell must needs give way.
'Tis thus my numbers fall
Before thy feet, each day.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A BA B C DC D E FE F G HG H |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 438 |
Words | 83 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1 |
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