Analysis of Woman in Love
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
That is my window. Just now
I have so softly wakened.
I thought that I would float.
How far does my life reach,
and where does the night begin
I could think that everything
was still me all around;
transparent like a crystal's
depths, darkened, mute.
I could keep even the stars
within me; so immense
my heart seems to me; so willingly
it let him go again.
whom I began perhaps to love, perhaps to hold.
Like something strange, undreamt-of,
my fate now gazes at me.
For what, then, am I stretched out
beneath this endlessness,
exuding fragrance like a meadow,
swayed this way and that,
calling out and frightened
that someone will hear the call,
and destined to disappear
inside some other life.
Scheme | XAAXX XABA XXCX AXC ABAA AXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 111101 111111 111111 0110101 111110 111101 0101010 1101 1111001 011101 111111100 111101 110101110111 110111 1111011 1111111 0111 01010101 11101 101010 111101 010101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 680 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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