Analysis of Encounter In The Chestnut Avenue
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
He felt the entrance's green darkness
wrapped cooly round him like a silken cloak
that he was still accepting and arranging;
when at the opposite transparent end, far off,
through green sunlight, as through green window panes,
whitely a solitary shape
flared up, long remaining distant
and then finally, the downdriving light
boiling over it at every step,
bearing on itself a bright pulsation,
which in the blond ran shyly to the back.
But suddenly the shade was deep,
and nearby eyes lay gazing
from a clear new unselfconscious face,
which, as in a portrait, lived intensely
in the instant things split off again:
first there forever, and then not at all.
Translated by Edward Snow
Scheme | XXAX XXXXX BXXA XXBX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 111110101 11110100010 110100010111 111111101 1001001 11101010 01100011 1010111001 10101011 1001110101 11000111 0111110 101111 1100101010 001011101 1101001111 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 674 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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