Psalm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGCH IJKLMGKNO PQRSTMUVW OXYZA2B2C2CD2 E2| It is a light that the wind has extinguished | A |
| It is a pub on the heath that a drunk departs in the afternoon | B |
| It is a vineyard charred and black with holes full of spiders | C |
| It is a space that they have white limed with milk | D |
| The madman has died It is a South Sea island | E |
| Receiving the Sun God One makes the drums roar | F |
| The men perform warlike dances | G |
| The women sway their hips in creeping vines and fire flowers | C |
| Whenever the ocean sings O our lost Paradise | H |
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| The nymphs have departed the golden woods | I |
| One buries the stranger Then arises a flicker rain | J |
| The son of Pan appears in the form of an earth laborer | K |
| Who sleeps away the meridian at the edge of the glowing asphalt | L |
| It is little girls in a courtyard in little dresses full of heart rending poverty | M |
| It is rooms filled with Accords and Sonatas | G |
| It is shadows which embrace each other before a blinded mirror | K |
| At the windows of the hospital the healing warm themselves | N |
| A white steamer carries bloody contagia up the canal | O |
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| The strange sister appears again in someone's evil dreams | P |
| Resting in the hazelbush she plays with his stars | Q |
| The student perhaps a doppelganger stares long after her from the window | R |
| Behind him stands his dead brother or he comes down the old spiral stairs | S |
| In the darkness of brown chestnuts the figure of the young novice | T |
| The garden is in evening The bats flit around inside the walls of the monastery | M |
| The children of the caretaker cease their playing and seek the gold of the heavens | U |
| Closing accords of a quartett The little blind girl runs trembling through the tree lined street | V |
| And later touches her shadow along cold walls surrounded by fairy tales and holy legends | W |
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| It is an empty boat that drives at evening down the black canal | O |
| In the bleakness of the old asylum human ruins come apart | X |
| The dead orphans lie at the garden wall | Y |
| From gray rooms tread angels with shit spattered wings | Z |
| Worms drip from their yellowed eyelids | A2 |
| The square before the church is obscure and silent as in the days of childhood | B2 |
| Earlier lives glide past upon silvery soles | C2 |
| And the shadows of the damned climb down to the sighing waters | C |
| In his grave the white magician plays with his snakes | D2 |
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| Silent above the place of the skull open God's golden eyes | E2 |
Georg Trakl
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