This is an analysis of The Imitator by Friedrich Schiller.

Good from the good,--to the reason this is not hard of conception;
But the genius has power good from the bad to evoke.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 0000001000110010 10101100001001 100101111010110 100110010011100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

good, to