Analysis of Sense Of Something Coming
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
I am like a flag in the center of open space.
I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and must live
it through.
while the things of the world still do not move:
the doors still close softly, and the chimneys are full
of silence,
the windows do not rattle yet, and the dust still lies down.
I already know the storm, and I am troubled as the sea.
I leap out, and fall back,
and throw myself out, and am absolutely alone
in the great storm.
Translated by Robert Bly
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110100101101 1101011110011 11 1011011111 011110001011 110 01011101001111 101010101110101 111011 01110101001 0011 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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