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 A2B2DA2

IA
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Born from the shadow of a breathB
We wander in abandonmentC
And are lost in the eternalD
Like victims ignorant wherefore they are consecratedE
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Like beggars nothing is our ownF
We fools at the locked gateG
As blind people we listen in the silenceH
In which our whisper is lostI
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We are the wanderers without destinationsJ
The clouds which the wind blows awayK
The flowers shaking in death's coolnessL
Which wait until one mows them downM
IIA
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So that the last torment becomes complete with meN
I do not defend you you hostile dark powersO
You are the road to great stillnessL
Upon which we stride in the coolest nightsP
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Your breath makes me burn louderQ
Patience The star dies down the dreams glideR
In those realms not named to usL
And which we may only walk along dreamlesslyD
IIIA
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You dark night you dark heartS
Who mirrors your holiest groundT
And your malice's last abyssesL
The mask stares before our painU
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Before our pain before our lustV
The empty mask's stony laughterQ
On it the earthen things brokeW
And ourselves not deliberatelyD
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And a strange enemy stands before usL
Who jeers about which we struggle dyingX
So that our songs sound cloudierQ
And what weeps in us remains darkY
IV-
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You are the wine that makes drunkZ
Now I bleed in sweet dancesL
And must wreath my suffering with flowersL
So your deepest mind wills o nightA2
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I am the harp in your wombB2
Now your dark song strugglesL
For the last pains in my heartS
And makes me eternal unrealD
V-
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Deep rest o deep restC2
No devout bell ringsL
You sweet mother of painU
Your death widened peaceL
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Close all woundsL
With your cool good handsL
So that inward they bleed to deathB
Sweet mother of pain youD2
VI-
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O let my silence be your songE2
What should the poor's whisper be to youD2
Who is separated from life's gardensL
Let you be nameless in me-
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Who is dreamlesslybuilt up in me-
Like a bell without toneF
Like my pain's sweet brideR
And the drunken poppy of my sleepingsL
VII-
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I heard flowers die in the groundT
And the wells' drunken lamentF2
And a song from the bell's mouthG2
Night and a whispered questionH2
And a heart o death woundT
Beyond its poor daysL
VIII-
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The darkness extinguished me in silenceL
I became a dead shadow in the dayK
Then I stepped from the house of joyI2
Outside in the nightA2
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Now a silence dwells in my heartS
That does not feel the dreary dayK
And smiles up to you like thornsL
Night forever and everQ
IXL
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O night you mute gate before my sufferingX
See this dark stigmata bleeding to deathB
And completely inclined the staggering chalice of agony-
O night I am ready-
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O night you garden of oblivionH2
Around my poverty's closed to the world shineJ2
The wine leaves wilt the wreath of thorns wiltsL
O come you grand timeK2
XL
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My demon once laughedL2
When I was a light in gleaming gardensL
And play and dance were my companionsL
And the wine of love which makes drunkZ
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My demon once weptM2
When I was a light in painful gardensL
And humility was my companionH2
Whose radiance shines on poverty's houseL
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However now my demon neither weeps nor laughsL
I am a shadow of lost gardensL
And my death dark companion isL
The silence of the empty midnightA2
XI-
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My poor smile which struggled for youD2
My sobbing song faded away in darknessL
Now my path comes to an endN2
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Let me tread in your cathedralD
Like once a fool simple minded devoutly-
And stand adoring mutely before youD2
XIIL
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You are in deep midnightA2
A dead shore at the silent seaL
A dead shore Never moreQ
You are in deep midnightA2
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You are in deep midnightA2
The heaven in which you glowed as a starQ
A heaven from which no more God blossomsL
You are in deep midnightA2
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You are in deep midnightA2
An unbegotten in sweet wombB2
And never existing unrealD
You are in deep midnightA2

Georg Trakl



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