Analysis of Loneliness
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Being apart and lonely is like rain.
It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs
to heaven, which is its old abode.
And only when leaving heaven drops upon the city.
It rains down on us in those twittering
hours when the streets turn their faces to the dawn,
and when two bodies who have found nothing,
dissapointed and depressed, roll over;
and when two people who despise eachother
have to sleep together in one bed-
that is when loneliness receives the rivers...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010111 11011010101 11101000111 110111101 01011010101010 11111011 101011110101 0111011110 1001110 011101011 111010011 11110001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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