Analysis of Falling Stars
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Do you remember still the falling stars
that like swift horses through the heavens raced
and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
of our wishes--do you recall? And we
did make so many! For there were countless numbers
of stars: each time we looked above we were
astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
knowing somehow we had survived their fall.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
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Metre | 1101010101 1111010101 0100101010 1101011101 111101101010 1111110110 010101011101 10101111001 1011010010 101110111 0101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 477 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 196 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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