De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJK CLM NOP QRRS T| There is a stubble field on which a black rain falls | A |
| There is a tree which brown stands lonely here | B |
| There is a hissing wind which haunts deserted huts | C |
| How sad this evening | D |
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| Past the village pond | E |
| The gentle orphan still gathers scanty ears of corn | F |
| Golden and round her eyes are gazing in the dusk | G |
| And her lap awaits the heavenly bridegroom | H |
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| Returning home | I |
| Shepherds found the sweet body | J |
| Decayed in the bramble bush | K |
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| A shade I am remote from sombre hamlets | C |
| The silence of God | L |
| I drank from the woodland well | M |
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| On my forehead cold metal forms | N |
| Spiders look for my heart | O |
| There is a light that fails in my mouth | P |
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| At night I found myself upon a heath | Q |
| Thick with garbage and the dust of stars | R |
| In the hazel copse | R |
| Crystal angels have sounded once more | S |
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| Translated by Michael Hamburger | T |
Georg Trakl
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