Analysis of What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your Hands?
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
What fields are as fragrant as your hands?
You feel how external fragrance stands
upon your stronger resistance.
Stars stand in images above.
Give me your mouth to soften, love;
ah, your hair is all in idleness.
See, I want to surround you with yourself
and the faded expectation lift
from the edges of your eyebrows;
I want, as with inner eyelids sheer,
to close for you all places which appear
by my tender caresses now.
Translated by John J.L. Mood
| Scheme | AAXBBX XXXCCX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110111 111010101 01110010 11010001 11111101 111110100 1111011101 00100101 1010111 11111011 1111110101 11100101 0101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 447 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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