Analysis of Autumn
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."
And tonight the heavy earth is falling
away from all other stars in the loneliness.
We're all falling. This hand here is falling.
And look at the other one. It's in them all.
And yet there is Someone, whose hands
infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.
Scheme | XXX AX AX XA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101011111 1110010101 11111101001 0010101110 011110100100 1110111110 01101011011 0111111 100011011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 396 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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