Analysis of Dedication
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
I have great faith in all things not yet spoken.
I want my deepest pious feelings freed.
What no one yet has dared to risk and warrant
will be for me a challenge I must meet.
If this presumptious seems, God, may I be forgiven.
For what I want to say to you is this:
my efforts shall be like a driving force,
quite without anger, without timidness
as little children show their love for you.
With these outflowing, river-like, with deltas
that spread like arms to reach the open sea,
with the recurrent tides that never cease
will I acknowledge you, will I proclaim you
as no one ever has before.
And if this should be arrogance, so let me
arrogant be to justify my prayer
that stands so serious and so alone
before your forehead, circled by the clouds.
Scheme | AXXX ABXBC XDXCX DXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111110 1111010101 11111111010 1111010111 11111111010 1111111111 1101110101 10110011 1101011111 111101110 1111110101 1001011101 11010111011 11110101 01111100111 100111011 1111000101 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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