Analysis of The Wait
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
It is life in slow motion,
it's the heart in reverse,
it's a hope-and-a-half:
too much and too little at once.
It's a train that suddenly
stops with no station around,
and we can hear the cricket,
and, leaning out the carriage
door, we vainly contemplate
a wind we feel that stirs
the blooming meadows, the meadows
made imaginary by this stop.
Translated by A. Poulin
Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 101001 101001 11011011 1011100 1111001 0111010 0101010 111010 011111 010101 10100111 0101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 363 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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