This is an analysis of Hymns To The Night : 4 by Novalis.
Now I know when will come the last morning -- when the Light no more scares away Night and Love -- when sleep shall be without waking, and but one continuous dream. I feel in me a celestial exhaustion. Long and weariful was my pilgrimage to the holy grave, and crushing was the cross. The crystal wave, which, imperceptible to the ordinary sense, springs in the dark bosom of the mound against whose foot breaks the flood of the world, he who has tasted it, he who has stood on the mountain frontier of the world, and looked across into the new land, into the abode of the Night -- truly he turns not again into the tumult of the world, into the land where dwells the Light in ceaseless unrest.
On those heights he builds for himself tabernacles -- tabernacles of peace, there longs and loves and gazes across, until the welcomest of all hours draws him down into the waters of the spring -- afloat above remains what is earthly, and is swept back in storms, but what became holy by the touch of love, runs free through hidden ways to the region beyond, where, like fragrances, it mingles with love asleep.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a X b cdcdXebeXeaeXfefgdedgbhbXaha
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,1,28,
- Metre: 11110101101011110111111100110111010011101001001011100111000010111010101011101000010101010011000101111010011111001111101001001110100011000010011011101000100010001110101001 1111110110001000011111110010101000110111000100001010101101010110111011010101111101001001111000100101 110110111010010100110101111011010100111001001110110101111101101001100110001010001110110101010101101001010100010101001010101111011001011101100101010111101010011111011111111101101101101010100101101001001010100111101110110010010110111010110110010111101101101000110111011001101110111000100101110101011110110111111011100101011011011101011011011000101101000110101100101000100101001111110110111011101101010111101001011111011011110101000101111010101010010010110101111011100111010010101001011111010110010110010011 10110 1111 010110 11101 100110 1111 101010 0111 11010 11111 110010 1101 110110 11101 011011 1101 111111 1101 110011 1111 11010 11101 010110 0111 111011 01101 101010 111001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, thy, to, thou, me, it, into, in, i, with, not, love, that, but, what, world, my, he, she, be, night, our, where, has, when, who, thee, as, one, light
