Analysis of Venetian Morning
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Windows pampered like princes always see
what on occasion deigns to trouble us:
the city that, time and again, where a shimmer
of sky strikes a feeling of floodtide,
takes shape without once choosing to be.
Each new morning must first show her the opals
she wore yesterday, and pull rows
of reflections out of the canal
and remind her of the other times:
only then does she concede and settle in
like a nymph who received great Zeus.
The dangling earrings ring out at her ear;
but she lifts San Giorgio Maggiore
and smiles idly into that lovely thing.
Translated by Edward Snow
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011011 1101011101 010110011010 11101011 110111011 1110111001 1110011 101011001 001010101 10111010100 10110111 01001011101 11111001 0110011101 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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