Analysis of You, you only, exist
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
You, you only, exist.
We pass away, till at last,
our passing is so immense
that you arise: beautiful moment,
in all your suddenness,
arising in love, or enchanted
in the contraction of work.
To you I belong, however time may
wear me away. From you to you
I go commanded. In between
the garland is hanging in chance; but if you
take it up and up and up: look:
all becomes festival!
| Scheme | XXXXXXX XAXAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001 1101111 10101101 110110010 011100 010011010 0001011 111011011 11011111 11010001 01011001111 11101011 101100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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