Analysis of Lady On A Balcony
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Suddenly she steps, wrapped into the wind,
brightly into brightness, as if singled out,
while now the room as though cut to fit
behind her fills the door
darkly like the ground of cameo,
that lets a glimmer through at the edges;
and you think the evening wasn't there
before she stepped out, and on the railing
set forth just a little of herself,
just her hands, --to be completely light:
as if passed on by the rows of houses
to the heavens, to be swayed by everything.
Translated by Edward Snow
Scheme | XXXX ABXC XXBC A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001110101 10011011101 110111111 010101 10101110 1101011010 011010101 0111101010 111010101 101110101 1111101110 1010111110 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 492 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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