The German Art
By no kind Augustus reared,To no Medici endeared,German art arose;Fostering glory smiled not on her,Ne'er with kingly smiles to sun her,Did her blooms unclose.
No,--she went by monarchs slightedWent unhonored, unrequited,From high Frederick's throne;Praise and pride be all the greater,That man's genius did create her,From man's worth alone.
Therefore, all from loftier mountains,Purer wells and richer fountains,Streams our poet-art;So no rule to curb its rushing--All the fuller flows it gushingFrom its deep--the heart!
Words in this poem
- went n.
- Course; way; path; journey; direction.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The German Art 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 German Art, in The Poems of Schiller: Third Period (1805), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6796, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/schiller-third-period/the-german-art.html, id L21862.
Form and metre
The German Art is 18 lines in 3 stanzas of 6 lines each. The rhyme scheme is AABCCB, complete in 2 of its 3 stanzas. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 88%).
See other poems in trochaic 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.
- 1 AABCCB rearedA · endearedA · aroseB · herC · herC · uncloseB
- 2 AAB--B slightedA · unrequitedA · throneB · greater · her · aloneB
- 3 AABCCB mountainsA · fountainsA · artB · rushingC · gushingC · heartB
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 trochaic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| By no kind Augustus reared, | 7 | ···˘/˘· |
| To no Medici endeared, | 7 | ··˘/˘˘/ |
| German art arose; | 5 | /˘·˘/ |
| Fostering glory smiled not on her, | 8 | /˘/˘···· |
| Ne'er with kingly smiles to sun her, | 8 | ··/˘···· |
| Did her blooms unclose. | 5 | ···˘/ |
| No,--she went by monarchs slighted | 8 | ····/·/˘ |
| Went unhonored, unrequited, | 8 | ·····˘/˘ |
| From high Frederick's throne; | 5 | ··/˘· |
| Praise and pride be all the greater, | 8 | ······/˘ |
| That man's genius did create her, | 8 | ··/˘·˘/· |
| From man's worth alone. | 5 | ···˘/ |
| Therefore, all from loftier mountains, | 9 | ····/˘˘/˘ |
| Purer wells and richer fountains, | 8 | /˘··/˘/˘ |
| Streams our poet-art; | 6 | ·/˘/˘· |
| So no rule to curb its rushing-- | 8 | ······/˘ |
| All the fuller flows it gushing | 8 | ··/˘··/˘ |
| From its deep--the heart! | 5 | ····· |
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