Analysis of The Sonnets To Orpheus: XIX
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Though the world keeps changing its form
as fast as a cloud, still
what is accomplished falls home
to the Primeval.
Over the change and the passing,
larger and freer,
soars your eternal song,
god with the lyre.
Never has grief been possesed,
never has love been learned,
and what removes us in death
is not revealed.
Only the song through the land
hallows and heals.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
| Scheme | XXXA XXXX BBX BBX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (47%) |
| Metre | 10111011 111011 1101011 10010 10010010 10010 110101 1101 101111 101111 0101101 1101 1001101 1001 01011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 391 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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