Analysis of Moving Forward
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
The deep parts of my life pour onward,
as if the river shores were opening out.
It seems that things are more like me now,
That I can see farther into paintings.
I feel closer to what language can't reach.
With my senses, as with birds, I climb
into the windy heaven, out of the oak,
in the ponds broken off from the sky
my falling sinks, as if standing on fishes.
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Metre | 011111110 11010101001 111111111 1111100110 1110111011 111011111 01010101101 001101101 11011110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 364 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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