Analysis of The Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
O hour of my muse: why do you leave me,
Wounding me by the wingbeats of your flight?
Alone: what shall I use my mouth to utter?
How shall I pass my days? And how my nights?
I have no one to love. I have no home.
There is no center to sustain my life.
All things to which I give myself grow rich
and leave me spent, impoverished, alone.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011111111 101101111 01111111110 1111110111 1111111111 1111010111 111111111 011101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 336 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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