The Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
O hour of my muse: why do you leave me,
Wounding me by the wingbeats of your flight?
Alone: what shall I use my mouth to utter?
How shall I pass my days? And how my nights?
I have no one to love. I have no home.
There is no center to sustain my life.
All things to which I give myself grow rich
and leave me spent, impoverished, alone.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXX X XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 336 |
Words | 72 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 4 |
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