Analysis of Fire's Reflection
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection
on some piece of gleaming furniture
that the child remembers so much later
like a revelation.
And if in his later life, one day
wounds him like so many others,
it's because he mistook some risk
or other for a promise.
Let's not forget the music, either,
that soon had hauled him
toward absence complicated
by an overflowing heart....
Translated by A. Poulin
Scheme | ABBA XXXX BXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111010010 111110100 1010101110 10010 010110111 11111010 10110111 1101010 110101010 11111 0110100 111001 0101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 402 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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