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 |
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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
Modified on March 05, 2023
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