Analysis of Eve

Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)



Simply she stands at the cathedral’s
great ascent, close to the rose window,
with the apple in the apple-pose,
guiltless-guilty once and for all

of the growing she gave birth to
since form the circle of eternities
loving she went forth, top struggle through
her way throughout the earth like a young year.

Ah, gladly yet a little in that land
Would she have lingered, heeding the harmony
And understanding of the animals.

But since she found the man determined,
She went with him, aspiring after death,
And she had as yet hardly known God.


Scheme AXXX BABX XXA XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 101110010 101110110 101000101 10101011 10101111 1101011 101111101 0101011011 1101010011 11110100100 001010100 111101010 1111010101 011111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 536
Words 97
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke — better known as Rainer Maria Rilke — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. more…

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