Analysis of To Music
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where all language
ends. You time
standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.
Feelings for whom? O you the transformation
of feelings into what?--: into audible landscape.
You stranger: music. You heart-space
grown out of us. The deepest space in us,
which, rising above us, forces its way out,--
holy departure:
when the innermost point in us stands
outside, as the most practiced distance, as the other
side of the air:
pure,
boundless,
no longer habitable.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Scheme | XXXX XXXAXBXBXXAC C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101101 101101101110 111 1010010101101 1011110010 110011011001 11010111 1111010101 11001110111 10010 10101011 1110110101010 1101 1 10 1101000 01011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 12, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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