Analysis of The Sisters
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Look how the same possibilities
unfold in their opposite demeanors,
as though one saw different ages
passing through two identical rooms.
Each thinks that she props up the other,
while resting wearily on her support;
and they can't make use of one another,
for they cause blood to rest on blood,
when as in the former times they softly touch
and try, along the tree-lined walks,
to feel themselves conducted and to lead;
ah, the ways they go are not the same.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010100 0101100010 111110010 101101001 111111010 1101001001 0111111010 11111111 11001011101 01010111 1101010011 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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