Analysis of Sense Of Something Coming

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



I am like a flag in the center of open space.
I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and must live
it through.
while the things of the world still do not move:
the doors still close softly, and the chimneys are full
of silence,
the windows do not rattle yet, and the dust still lies down.

I already know the storm, and I am troubled as the sea.
I leap out, and fall back,
and throw myself out, and am absolutely alone
in the great storm.

Translated by Robert Bly


Scheme XXXXXXX XXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1110100101101 1101011110011 11 1011011111 011110001011 110 01011101001111 101010101110101 111011 01110101001 0011 0101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 460
Words 94
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 4, 1
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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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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