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
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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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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