Analysis of What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
What birds plunge through is not the intimate space,
in which you see all Forms intensified.
(In the Open, denied, you would lose yourself,
would disappear into that vastness.)
Space reaches from us and translates Things:
to become the very essence of a tree,
throw inner space around it, from that space
that lives in you. Encircle it with restraint.
It has no limits. For the first time, shaped
in your renouncing, it becomes fully tree.
Submitted and Translated by Gabriel Caffrey
Scheme | AXXX XBAXXB B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101001 011111010 00100111101 10101110 110110011 10101010101 1101011111 11010101101 1111010111 01010101101 0100010110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 481 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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