Analysis of Parting
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
How I have felt that thing that's called 'to part',
and feel it still: a dark, invincible,
cruel something by which what was joined so well
is once more shown, held out, and torn apart.
In what defenceless gaze at that I've stood,
which, as it, calling to me, let me go,
stayed there, as though it were all womanhood,
yet small and white and nothing more than, oh,
waving, now already unrelated
to me, a sight, continuing wave,--scarce now
explainable: perhaps a plum-tree bough
some perchinig cuckoo's hastily vacated.
Translated by J.B. Leishman
Scheme | AXXA BCBC XDDX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 0111010100 10101111111 1111110101 01111111 1111011111 111110110 1101010111 101010010 11010100111 0100010111 1110100010 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 543 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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