A Garden-Arbor
Ah, rogue! a tease thou art:I have thee!(He kisses her.)
(clasping him, and returning the kiss)Dearest man! I love thee from my heart.
My mother would—farewell!
Ah, can I not remain?Farewell!
Dear God! However is it, suchA man can think and know so much?I stand ashamed and in amaze,And answer “Yes” to all he says,A poor, unknowing child! and he—I can’t think what he finds in me! [Exit.
Words in this poem
- amaze v. t.
- To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze. [Pref. a- + maze.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
A Garden-Arbor is in the public domain. This text is taken from Faust, Part One, Project Gutenberg ebook #14591, the Bayard Taylor translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, A Garden-Arbor, in Faust, Part One (1870), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #14591, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/goethe-faust/a-garden-arbor.html, id L14395.
Form and metre
A Garden-Arbor is 14 lines in 5 verse paragraphs. It is unrhymed, as far as the pronouncing dictionary can tell. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 87%). 97% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 6.8 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 7% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 5 AA---- suchA · muchA · amaze · says · he · exit
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Ah, rogue! a tease thou art: | 6 | ······ |
| I have thee! | 3 | ··· |
| (He kisses her.) | 4 | ·/˘· |
| (clasping him, and returning the kiss) | 9 | /˘··˘/˘·· |
| Dearest man! I love thee from my heart. | 9 | /˘······· |
| My mother would—farewell! | 6 | ·/˘··/ |
| Ah, can I not remain? | 6 | ····˘/ |
| Farewell! | 2 | ·/ |
| Dear God! However is it, such | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| A man can think and know so much? | 8 | ········ |
| I stand ashamed and in amaze, | 8 | ··˘/··˘/ |
| And answer “Yes” to all he says, | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| A poor, unknowing child! and he— | 8 | ··˘/˘··· |
| I can’t think what he finds in me! [Exit. | 10 | ········/˘ |
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