Translations of Goethe; Ongoing Project

[jringo_]

Milo:

Okay.

This is a poem. Workshop it as such.

I will worry whether or not I am following my own views on what constitutes translation.

(Oddly enough, I read "Vom Himmel" as "Longfellow" so my apologies there)

So to the workshop:

Could you expand on your comment about the verse of the poem? How is it not in the form I described. Also, how, if you are correct about the meter, is this accentual verse?

Edit: what I mean to ask is, how is accentual verse different from metrical? My understanding is that accentual is metrical but metrical is not accentual. Similar to a simile vs metaphor.