Analysis of World Was In The Face Of The Beloved
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
World was in the face of the beloved--,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.
Why didn't I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn't I drink
world, so near that I couldn't almost taste it?
Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.
But I was filled up also, with too much
world, and, drinking, I myself ran over.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
| Scheme | XXX XXX XXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110011001 1100111011 111111111 1101101011 111111111011 1111110111 111111 1111110111 101011110 01011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 404 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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