Song In The Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHI JKLMA NOLP QRLDA STLU VQWD LXQY ZLLA2 B2LSD C2LUL LLBD2 E2D2L FRL TF2G2H2TL LKI2A2 SKLQL XB H2J2LK2L L2LLZ M2LH2L LLLA2 D2LN2 D D2L A2LQA2 A2QLA2 A2B2DA2I | A |
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Born from the shadow of a breath | B |
We wander in abandonment | C |
And are lost in the eternal | D |
Like victims ignorant wherefore they are consecrated | E |
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Like beggars nothing is our own | F |
We fools at the locked gate | G |
As blind people we listen in the silence | H |
In which our whisper is lost | I |
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We are the wanderers without destinations | J |
The clouds which the wind blows away | K |
The flowers shaking in death's coolness | L |
Which wait until one mows them down | M |
II | A |
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So that the last torment becomes complete with me | N |
I do not defend you you hostile dark powers | O |
You are the road to great stillness | L |
Upon which we stride in the coolest nights | P |
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Your breath makes me burn louder | Q |
Patience The star dies down the dreams glide | R |
In those realms not named to us | L |
And which we may only walk along dreamlessly | D |
III | A |
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You dark night you dark heart | S |
Who mirrors your holiest ground | T |
And your malice's last abysses | L |
The mask stares before our pain | U |
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Before our pain before our lust | V |
The empty mask's stony laughter | Q |
On it the earthen things broke | W |
And ourselves not deliberately | D |
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And a strange enemy stands before us | L |
Who jeers about which we struggle dying | X |
So that our songs sound cloudier | Q |
And what weeps in us remains dark | Y |
IV | - |
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You are the wine that makes drunk | Z |
Now I bleed in sweet dances | L |
And must wreath my suffering with flowers | L |
So your deepest mind wills o night | A2 |
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I am the harp in your womb | B2 |
Now your dark song struggles | L |
For the last pains in my heart | S |
And makes me eternal unreal | D |
V | - |
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Deep rest o deep rest | C2 |
No devout bell rings | L |
You sweet mother of pain | U |
Your death widened peace | L |
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Close all wounds | L |
With your cool good hands | L |
So that inward they bleed to death | B |
Sweet mother of pain you | D2 |
VI | - |
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O let my silence be your song | E2 |
What should the poor's whisper be to you | D2 |
Who is separated from life's gardens | L |
Let you be nameless in me | - |
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Who is dreamlesslybuilt up in me | - |
Like a bell without tone | F |
Like my pain's sweet bride | R |
And the drunken poppy of my sleepings | L |
VII | - |
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I heard flowers die in the ground | T |
And the wells' drunken lament | F2 |
And a song from the bell's mouth | G2 |
Night and a whispered question | H2 |
And a heart o death wound | T |
Beyond its poor days | L |
VIII | - |
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The darkness extinguished me in silence | L |
I became a dead shadow in the day | K |
Then I stepped from the house of joy | I2 |
Outside in the night | A2 |
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Now a silence dwells in my heart | S |
That does not feel the dreary day | K |
And smiles up to you like thorns | L |
Night forever and ever | Q |
IX | L |
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O night you mute gate before my suffering | X |
See this dark stigmata bleeding to death | B |
And completely inclined the staggering chalice of agony | - |
O night I am ready | - |
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O night you garden of oblivion | H2 |
Around my poverty's closed to the world shine | J2 |
The wine leaves wilt the wreath of thorns wilts | L |
O come you grand time | K2 |
X | L |
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My demon once laughed | L2 |
When I was a light in gleaming gardens | L |
And play and dance were my companions | L |
And the wine of love which makes drunk | Z |
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My demon once wept | M2 |
When I was a light in painful gardens | L |
And humility was my companion | H2 |
Whose radiance shines on poverty's house | L |
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However now my demon neither weeps nor laughs | L |
I am a shadow of lost gardens | L |
And my death dark companion is | L |
The silence of the empty midnight | A2 |
XI | - |
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My poor smile which struggled for you | D2 |
My sobbing song faded away in darkness | L |
Now my path comes to an end | N2 |
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Let me tread in your cathedral | D |
Like once a fool simple minded devoutly | - |
And stand adoring mutely before you | D2 |
XII | L |
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You are in deep midnight | A2 |
A dead shore at the silent sea | L |
A dead shore Never more | Q |
You are in deep midnight | A2 |
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You are in deep midnight | A2 |
The heaven in which you glowed as a star | Q |
A heaven from which no more God blossoms | L |
You are in deep midnight | A2 |
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You are in deep midnight | A2 |
An unbegotten in sweet womb | B2 |
And never existing unreal | D |
You are in deep midnight | A2 |
Georg Trakl
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