Analysis of Buddha in Glory
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 (Prague) – 1926 (Montreux)
Center of all centers, core of cores,
almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet--
all this universe, to the furthest stars
all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.
Now you feel how nothing clings to you;
your vast shell reaches into endless space,
and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.
Illuminated in your infinite peace,
a billion stars go spinning through the night,
blazing high above your head.
But in you is the presence that
will be, when all the stars are dead.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110111 101010101 111010101 101111111 111110111 1111001101 0101110101 0100011001 0101110101 1010111 10110101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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