Analysis of Autumn Day

Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)



Lord: it is time. The summer was immense.
Lay your shadow on the sundials
and let loose the wind in the fields.

Bid the last fruits to be full;
give them another two more southerly days,
press them to ripeness, and chase
the last sweetness into the heavy wine.

Whoever has no house now will not build one
anymore.
Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long
time,
will stay up, read, write long letters,
and wander the avenues, up and down,
restlessly, while the leaves are blowing.


Scheme AAX XXXX XXXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 111101 01101001 1011111 11010111001 111101 0110010101 01011111111 01 01010111011101 1 11111110 010010101 100101110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 483
Words 92
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 7
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 2023

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke — better known as Rainer Maria Rilke — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. more…

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