Analysis of Palm
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk
only on feelings. That faces upward
and in its mirror
receives heavenly roads, which travel
along themselves.
That has learned to walk upon water
when it scoops,
that walks upon wells,
transfiguring every path.
That steps into other hands,
changes those that are like it
into a landscape:
wanders and arrives within them,
fills them with arrival.
Scheme | ABCDECFGHIJKLD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100101111111 1011011010 00110 011001110 0101 111110110 111 11011 11001 1101101 1011111 0101 10001011 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 390 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 318 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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