This is an analysis of Astronomical Writings by Friedrich Schiller.

Oh, how infinite, how unspeakably great, are the heavens!
Yet by frivolity's hand downwards the heavens are pulled!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 111001100011010 11100011001011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2