Analysis of Buddha in Glory

Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)



Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.


Scheme XXXX XXXX XAXA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (33%)
Metre 101110111 101010101 111010101 101111111 111110111 1111001101 0101110101 0100011001 0101110101 1010111 10110101 11110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 476
Words 86
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke — better known as Rainer Maria Rilke — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. more…

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