Analysis of Evening
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat
held for it by a row of ancient trees;
you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight,
one journeying to heaven, one that falls;
and leave you, not at home in either one,
not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses,
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
a star each night, and rises;
and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Submitted by zenfishsticks
Scheme | XAXX XBXB CXCX C A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010011 1111011101 11001110011 1100110111 0111110101 111101101010 1101010010101101 0111010 01111010 1111101 1111010100 11100010101 01011010 01011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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