Analysis of I Am, O Anxious One
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voice
surging forth with all my earthly feelings?
They yearn so high, that they have sprouted wings
and whitely fly in circles round your face.
My soul, dressed in silence, rises up
and stands alone before you: can't you see?
don't you know that my prayer is growing ripe
upon your vision as upon a tree?
If you are the dreamer, I am what you dream.
But when you want to wake, I am your wish,
and I grow strong with all magnificence
and turn myself into a star's vast silence
above the strange and distant city, Time.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111111 1011111010 1111111101 0101010111 111010101 0101011111 1111111101 0111010101 11101011111 1111111111 0111111 0110101110 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 552 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 430 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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