Analysis of The Future
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
The future: time's excuse
to frighten us; too vast
a project, too large a morsel
for the heart's mouth.
Future, who won't wait for you?
Everyone is going there.
It suffices you to deepen
the absence that we are.
Translated by A. Poulin
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101 110111 01011010 1011 1011111 101101 10101110 010111 0101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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