Analysis of Greek Love-Talk
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
What I have already learned as a lover,
I see you, beloved, learning angrily;
then for you it distantly departed,
now your destiny stands in all the stars.
Over your breasts we will together contend:
since as glowingly shining they've ripened,
so also your hands desire to touch them
and their own pleasure superintend.
| Scheme | XXAX XXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101011010 1110110100 11111010 1110010101 10111101001 1110010110 11011010111 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 320 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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