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Rahel To Varnhagen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Note Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were	A
married after many protestations on her part in	B
The marriage so far as he was concerned at any	C
rate appears to have been satisfactory	C
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Now you have read them all or if not all	D
As many as in all conscience I should fancy	C
To be enough There are no more of them	E
Or none to burn your sleep or to bring dreams	F
Of devils If these are not sufficient surely	C
You are a strange young man I might live on	G
Alone and for another forty years	H
Or not quite forty are you happier now	I
Always to ask if there prevailed elsewhere	J
Another like yourself that would have held	K
These aged hands as long as you have held them	E
Not once observing for all I can see	C
How they are like your mother's Well you have read	L
His letters now and you have heard me say	M
That in them are the cinders of a passion	N
That was my life and you have not yet broken	N
Your way out of my house out of my sight	O
Into the street You are a strange young man	P
I know as much as that of you for certain	N
And I'm already praying for your sake	Q
That you be not too strange Too much of that	R
May lead you bye and bye through gloomy lanes	S
To a sad wilderness where one may grope	T
Alone and always or until he feels	U
Ferocious and invisible animals	V
That wait for men and eat them in the dark	W
Why do you sit there on the floor so long	X
Smiling at me while I try to be solemn	Y
Do you not hear it said for your salvation	N
When I say truth Are you at four and twenty	C
So little deceived in us that you interpret	Z
The humor of a woman to be noticed	A2
As her choice between you and Acheron	N
Are you so unscathed yet as to infer	A
That if a woman worries when a man	N
Or a man child has wet shoes on his feet	B2
She may as well commemorate with ashes	C2
The last eclipse of her tranquillity	B2
If you look up at me and blink again	N
I shall not have to make you tell me lies	D2
To know the letters you have not been reading	E2
I see now that I may have had for nothing	E2
A most unpleasant shivering in my conscience	F2
When I laid open for your contemplation	N
The wealth of my worn casket If I did	B2
The fault was not yours wholly Search again	N
This wreckage we may call for sport a face	G2
And you may chance upon the price of havoc	H2
That I have paid for a few sorry stones	I2
That shine and have no light yet once were stars	J2
And sparkled on a crown Little and weak	K2
They seem and they are cold I fear for you	L2
But they that once were fire for me may not	B2
Be cold again for me until I die	B2
And only God knows if they may be then	N
There is a love that ceases to be love	M2
In being ourselves How then are we to lose it	B2
You that are sure that you know everything	E2
There is to know of love answer me that	B2
Well You are not even interested	B2
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Once on a far off time when I was young	N2
I felt with your assurance and all through me	C
That I had undergone the last and worst	B2
Of love's inventions There was a boy who brought	B2
The sun with him and woke me up with it	B2
And that was every morning every night	B2
I tried to dream of him but never could	B2
More than I might have seen in Adam's eyes	D2
Their fond uncertainty when Eve began	N
The play that all her tireless progeny	C
Are not yet weary of One scene of it	B2
Was brief but was eternal while it lasted	B2
And that was while I was the happiest	B2
Of an imaginary six or seven	N
Somewhere in history but not on earth	O2
For whom the sky had shaken and let stars	J2
Rain down like diamonds Then there were clouds	P2
And a sad end of diamonds whereupon	N
Despair came like a blast that would have brought	B2
Tears to the eyes of all the bears in Finland	B2
And love was done That was how much I knew	L2
Poor little wretch I wonder where he is	Q2
This afternoon Out of this rain I hope	T
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At last when I had seen so many days	R2
Dressed all alike and in their marching order	A
Go by me that I would not always count them	E
One stopped shattering the whole file of Time	S2
Or so it seemed and when I looked again	N
There was a man He struck once with his eyes	D2
And then there was a woman I who had come	Y
To wisdom or to vision or what you like	T2
By the old hidden road that has no name	U2
I who was used to seeing without flying	E2
So much that others fly from without seeing	E2
Still looked and was afraid and looked again	N
And after that when I had read the story	C
Told in his eyes and felt within my heart	B2
The bleeding wound of their necessity	C
I knew the fear was his If I had failed him	V2
And flown away from him I should have lost	B2
Ingloriously my wings in scrambling back	W2
And found them arms again If he had struck me	C
Not only with his eyes but with his hands	X2
I might have pitied him and hated love	M2
And then gone mad I who have been so strong	X
Why don't you laugh might even have done all that	B2
I who have learned so much and said so much	Y2
And had the commendations of the great	B2
For one who rules herself why don't you cry	B2
And own a certain small authority	C
Among the blind who see no more than ever	A
But like my voice I would have tossed it all	D
To Tophet for one man and he was jealous	Z2
I would have wound a snake around my neck	A3
And then have let it bite me till I died	B2
If my so doing would have made me sure	B3
That one man might have lived and he was jealous	Z2
I would have driven these hands into a cage	C3
That held a thousand scorpions and crushed them	E
If only by so poisonous a trial	D3
I could have crushed his doubt I would have wrung	N2
My living blood with mediaeval engines	E3
Out of my screaming flesh if only that	B2
Would have made one man sure I would have paid	B2
For him the tiresome price of body and soul	F3
And let the lash of a tongue weary town	N
Fall as it might upon my blistered name	U2
And while it fell I could have laughed at it	B2
Knowing that he had found out finally	C
Where the wrong was But there was evil in him	V2
That would have made no more of his possession	N
Than confirmation of another fault	B2
And there was honor if you call it honor	A
That hoods itself with doubt and wears a crown	N
Of lead that might as well be gold and fire	A
Give it as heavy or as light a name	U2
As any there is that fits I see myself	G3
Without the power to swear to this or that	B2
That I might be if he had been without it	B2
Whatever I might have been that I was not	B2
It only happened that it wasn't so	H3
Meanwhile you might seem to be listening	E2
If you forget yourself and go to sleep	I3
My treasure I shall not say this again	N
Look up once more into my poor old face	G2
Where you see beauty or the Lord knows what	B2
And say to me aloud what else there is	Q2
Than ruins in it that you most admire	J3
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No there was never anything like that	B2
Nature has never fastened such a mask	K3
Of radiant and impenetrable merit	B2
On any woman as you say there is	Q2
On this one Not a mask I thank you sir	A
But you see more with your determination	N
I fear than with your prudence or your conscience	F2
And you have never met me with my eyes	D2
In all the mirrors I've made faces at	B2
No I shall never call you strange again	N
You are the young and inconvincible	C
Epitome of all blind men since Adam	Y
May the blind lead the blind if that be so	H3
And we shall need no mirrors You are saying	E2
What most I feared you might But if the blind	B2
Or one of them be not so fortunate	B2
As to put out the eyes of recollection	N
She might at last without her meaning it	B2
Lead on the other without his knowing it	B2
Until the two of them should lose themselves	L3
Among dead craters in a lava field	B2
As empty as a desert on the moon	N
I am not speaking in a theatre	A
But in a room so real and so familiar	A
That sometimes I would wreck it Then I pause	M3
Remembering there is a King in Weimar	N3
A monarch and a poet and a shepherd	B2
Of all who are astray and are outside	B2
The realm where they should rule I think of him	V2
And save the furniture I think of you	L2
And am forlorn finding in you the one	N
To lavish aspirations and illusions	E3
Upon a faded and forsaken house	O3
Where love being locked alone was nigh to burning	E2
House and himself together Yes you are strange	P3
To see in such an injured architecture	A
Room for new love to live in Are you laughing	E2
No Well you are not crying as you should be	C
Tears even if they told only gratitude	B2
For your escape and had no other story	C
Were surely more becoming than a smile	C
For my unwomanly straightforwardness	O3
In seeing for you through my close gate of years	O3
Your forty ways to freedom Why do you smile	C
And while I'm trembling at my faith in you	L2
In giving you to read this book of danger	A
That only one man living might have written	N
These letters which have been a part of me	C
So long that you may read them all again	N
As often as you look into my face	O3
And hear them when I speak to you and feel them	E
Whenever you have to touch me with your hand	B2
Why are you so unwilling to be spared	B2
Why do you still believe in me But no	H3
I'll find another way to ask you that	B2
I wonder if there is another way	M
That says it better and means anything	E2
There is no other way that could be worse	O3
I was not asking you it was myself	G3
Alone that I was asking Why do I dip	Q3
For lies when there is nothing in my well	C
But shining truth you say How do you know	H3
Truth has a lonely life down where she lives	O3
And many a time when she comes up to breathe	R3
She sinks before we seize her and makes ripples	O3
Possibly you may know no more of me	C
Than a few ripples and they may soon be gone	N
Leaving you then with all my shining truth	S3
Drowned in a shining water and when you look	T3
You may not see me there but something else	O3
That never was a woman being yourself	G3
You say to me my truth is past all drowning	E2
And safe with you for ever You know all that	B2
How do you know all that and who has told you	L2
You know so much that I'm an atom frightened	B2
Because you know so little And what is this	O3
You know the luxury there is in haunting	E2
The blasted thoroughfares of disillusion	N
If that's your name for them with only ghosts	O3
For company You know that when a woman	N
Is blessed or cursed with a divine impatience	O3
Another name of yours for a bad temper	A
She must have one at hand on whom to wreak it	B2
That's what you mean whatever the turn you give it	B2
Sure of a kindred sympathy and thereby	B2
Effect a mutual calm You know that wisdom	Y
Given in vain to make a food for those	O3
Who are without it will be seen at last	B2
And even at last only by those who gave it	B2
As one or more of the forgotten crumbs	O3
That others leave You know that men's applause	O3
And women's envy savor so much of dust	B2
That I go hungry having at home no fare	J
But the same changeless bread that I may swallow	H3
Only with tears and prayers Who told you that	B2
You know that if I read and read alone	N
Too many books that no men yet have written	N
I may go blind or worse You know yourself	G3
Of all insistent and insidious creatures	O3
To be the one to save me and to guard	B2
For me their flaming language And you know	H3
That if I give much headway to the whim	V2
That's in me never to be quite sure that even	N
Through all those years of storm and fire I waited	B2
For this one rainy day I may go on	N
And on and on alone through smoke and ashes	O3
To a cold end You know so dismal much	Y2
As that about me Well I believe you do	L2