Analysis of Sacrifice
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
How my body blooms from every vein
more fragrantly, since you appeard to me;
look, I walk slimmer now and straighter,
and all you do is wait-:who are you then?
Look: I feel how I'm moving away,
how I'm shedding my old life, leaf by leaf.
Only your smile spreads like sheer stars
over you and, soon now, over me.
Whatever shines through my childhood years
still nameless and gleaming like water,
I will name after you at the altar,
which is blazing brightly from your hair
and braided gently with your breasts.
Translated by Edward Snow
Scheme | XABX XXXA XBBXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111001 1111111 111101010 0111111111 111111001 1110111111 10111111 101011101 1011111 110010110 1111011010 111010111 01010111 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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