Analysis of The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: I
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete
interchange of our own
essence with world-space. You counterweight
in which I rythmically happen.
Single wave-motion whose
gradual sea I am:
you, most inclusive of all our possible seas-
space has grown warm.
How many regions in space have already been
inside me. There are winds that seem like
my wandering son.
Do you recognize me, air, full of places I once absorbed?
You who were the smooth bark,
roundness, and leaf of my words.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
| Scheme | XXXA XXXX XXA XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101001001 011101 10111110 011110 101101 100111 1101011101001 1111 110100110101 011111111 11001 11101111101101 110011 101111 01011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 499 |
| Words | 86 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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