Verses Written in the Album of a Friend (Herr Von Mecheln of Basle.)
Nature in charms is exhaustless, in beauty ever reviving;And, like Nature, fair art is inexhaustible too.Hail, thou honored old man! for both in thy heart thou preservestLiving sensations, and thus ne'er-ending youth is thy lot!
Words in this poem
- exhaustless a.
- Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Verses Written in the Album of a Friend (Herr Von Mecheln of Basle.) 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, Verses Written in the Album of a Friend (Herr Von Mecheln of Basle.), in The Poems of Schiller: Third Period (1805), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #6796, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/schiller-third-period/verses-written-in-the-album-of-a-friend-herr-von-mecheln-of-.html, id L21920.
Form and metre
Verses Written in the Album of a Friend (Herr Von Mecheln of Basle.) is 4 lines in a single stanza. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic tetrameter.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nature in charms is exhaustless, in beauty ever reviving; | 15 | /˘···˘/˘·/˘/˘/˘ |
| And, like Nature, fair art is inexhaustible too. | 11 | ··/˘···˘/˘· |
| Hail, thou honored old man! for both in thy heart thou preservest | 15 | ··/˘········˘/˘ |
| Living sensations, and thus ne'er-ending youth is thy lot! | 14 | /˘˘/˘···/˘···· |
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