Analysis of A Walk
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far ahead of the road I have begun.
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;
it has inner light, even from a distance-
and charges us, even if we do not reach it,
into something else, which, hardly sensing it,
we already are; a gesture waves us on
answering our own wave...
but what we feel is the wind in our faces.
Translated by Robert Bly
Scheme | XXXX AAXXX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101010101 101011011101 1111111101 11101101010 010110111111 01101110101 10101010111 1001011 111110101010 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 386 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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