Analysis of Music
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Take me by the hand;
it's so easy for you, Angel,
for you are the road
even while being immobile.
You see, I'm scared no one
here will look for me again;
I couldn't make use of
whatever was given,
so they abandoned me.
At first the solitude
charmed me like a prelude,
but so much music wounded me.
Translated by A. Poulin
Scheme | XAXA BXXB CDDC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 11101110 11101 10110010 111111 1111101 110111 10110 110101 11010 11101 11110101 0101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 317 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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