Analysis of Girl in Love
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
That's my window. This minute
So gently did I alight
From sleep--was still floating in it.
Where has my life its limit
And where begins the night?
I could fancy all things around me
Were nothing but I as yet;
Like a crystal's depth, profoundly
Mute, translucent, unlit.
I have space to spare inside me
For the stars, too: so full of room
Feels my heart; so lightly
Would it let go of him, whom
For all I know I have started
To love, it may be to hold.
Strange, as if never charted,
Stares my fortune untold.
Why is it I am bedded
Beneath this infinitude,
Fragrant like a meadow,
Hither and thither moved,
Calling out, yet fearing
Someone might hear the cry,
Destined to disappearing
Within another I.
Scheme | ABXAB CXCA CDCD EFEF XAXX GHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 1101101 11111001 1111110 010101 111011011 0101111 10101010 10101 11111011 10111111 111110 1111111 11111110 1111111 1111010 111001 1111110 0111 10101 10011 101110 11101 101010 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 684 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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