Analysis of Moving Forward

Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)



The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
That I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can't reach.
With my senses, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
in the ponds broken off from the sky
my falling sinks, as if standing on fishes.


Scheme ABCDEFGHI
Poetic Form
Metre 011111110 11010101001 111111111 1111100110 1110111011 111011111 01010101101 001101101 11011110110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 364
Words 74
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 281
Words per stanza (avg) 72
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke — better known as Rainer Maria Rilke — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. more…

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