Analysis of The Panther
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly--. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100101 1111011101 101111111 01010010111 1110011010010 0101110011 110100101010 010101110 10110101010 1100110100 10110101010 100101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 504 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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