Analysis of The Apple Orchard
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Come let us watch the sun go down
and walk in twilight through the orchard's green.
Does it not seem as if we had for long
collected, saved and harbored within us
old memories? To find releases and seek
new hopes, remembering half-forgotten joys,
mingled with darkness coming from within,
as we randomly voice our thoughts aloud
wandering beneath these harvest-laden trees
reminiscent of Durer woodcuts, branches
which, bent under the fully ripened fruit,
wait patiently, trying to outlast, to
serve another season's hundred days of toil,
straining, uncomplaining, by not breaking
but succeeding, even though the burden
should at times seem almost past endurance.
Not to falter! Not to be found wanting!
Thus must it be, when willingly you strive
throughout a long and uncomplaining life,
committed to one goal: to give yourself!
And silently to grow and to bear fruit.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 01011011 1111111111 0101010011 11001101001 11010010101 1011010101 11100110101 10001110101 010110110 1110010101 110010111 10101010111 1011110 1010101010 111111100 1110111110 1111110011 0101011 0101111101 0100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 857 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 351 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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