This is an analysis of the poem Lament (Whom Will You Cry To, Heart?) that begins with:
Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely,
your path struggles on through incomprehensible...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXX aXcXXbcX Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 10110111110 111011010100 111011001 11000010 10101010 011101 1101011001010 0101010 11011011010 010001001011 101 100010100 11111111 00010010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; more, my are repeated.
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More information about poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Analysis of The Unicorn
- Analysis of Lament (O How All Things Are Far Removed)
- Analysis of Portrait Of My Father As A Young Man
