Analysis of Early Spring
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
hesitantly, reach toward the earth
from space, and country lanes are showing
these unexpected subtle risings
that find expression in the empty trees.
| Scheme | AXXA XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101001010 1101101 1011101 110101 100010101 110101110 1010101 1101000101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 297 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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