Analysis of Night (This night, agitated by the growing storm)
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
This night, agitated by the growing storm,
how it has suddenly expanded its dimensions--,
that ordinarily would have gone unnoticed,
like a cloth folded, and hidden in the folds of time.
Where the stars give resistance it does not stop there,
neither does it begin within the forest's depths,
nor show upon the surface of my face
nor with your appearance.
The lamps keep swaying, fully unaware:
is our light lying?
Is night the only reality
that has endured through thousands of years?
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
Scheme | XXXX AXXX ABXX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110010101 1111000101010 10100111010 1011001000111 101101011111 101101010101 1101010111 111010 011101001 110110 1101010 110111011 0101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 518 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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