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 |
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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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