The Antique to the Northern Wanderer
Thou hast crossed over torrents, and swung through wide-spreading ocean,--Over the chain of the Alps dizzily bore thee the bridge,That thou might'st see me from near, and learn to value my beauty,Which the voice of renown spreads through the wandering world.And now before me thou standest,--canst touch my altar so holy,--But art thou nearer to me, or am I nearer to thee?
Words in this poem
- hast
- , 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Fave, contr. of havest.
- dizzily adv.
- In a dizzy manner or state.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Antique to the Northern Wanderer is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Schiller — Third period, Project Gutenberg ebook #6796; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Friedrich Schiller, The Antique to the Northern Wanderer, in The Poems of Schiller: Third Period (1805), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6796, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/schiller-third-period/the-antique-to-the-northern-wanderer.html, id L21873.
Form and metre
The Antique to the Northern Wanderer is 6 lines in a single stanza. The metre is anapaestic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 75%).
See other poems in anapaestic pentameter.
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.
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 anapaestic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Thou hast crossed over torrents, and swung through wide-spreading ocean,-- | 13 | ····/˘····/˘/ |
| Over the chain of the Alps dizzily bore thee the bridge, | 13 | ······/˘˘···· |
| That thou might'st see me from near, and learn to value my beauty, | 15 | ··········/˘·/˘ |
| Which the voice of renown spreads through the wandering world. | 12 | ····˘/···/˘· |
| And now before me thou standest,--canst touch my altar so holy,-- | 16 | ······/˘···/˘·/˘ |
| But art thou nearer to me, or am I nearer to thee? | 14 | ···/˘·····/˘·· |
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