Analysis of Rememberance
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
And you wait, keep waiting for that one thing
which would infinitely enrich your life:
the powerful, uniquely uncommon,
the awakening of dormant stones,
depths that would reveal you to yourself.
In the dusk you notice the book shelves
with their volumes in gold and in brown;
and you think of far lands you journeyed,
of pictures and of shimmering gowns
worn by women you conquered and lost.
And it comes to you all of a sudden:
That was it! And you arise, for you are
aware of a year in your distant past
with its fears and events and prayers.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
Scheme | AXBXX XXXXX BXXX A |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 0111101111 1110000111 0100010010 001001101 111011101 001110011 111001001 011111110 110011001 111011001 0111111010 1110101111 0110101101 11100101 0101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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