Thinking Of A Friend At Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBAEF GHBIJEKL AMNOAPQ RSTUVAWEXWAYZBA2G I B2| In this evil year autumn comes early | A |
| I walk by night in the field alone the rain clatters | B |
| The wind on my hat And you And you my friend | C |
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| You are standing maybe and seeing the sickle moon | D |
| Move in a small arc over the forests | B |
| And bivouac fire red in the black valley | A |
| You are lying maybe in a straw field and sleeping | E |
| And dew falls cold on your forehead and battle jacket | F |
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| It's possible tonight you're on horseback | G |
| The farthest outpost peering along with a gun in your fist | H |
| Smiling whispering to your exhausted horse | B |
| Maybe I keep imagining you are spending the night | I |
| As a guest in a strange castle with a park | J |
| And writing a letter by candlelight and tapping | E |
| On the piano keys by the window | K |
| Groping for a sound | L |
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| And maybe | A |
| You are already silent already dead and the day | M |
| Will shine no longer into your beloved | N |
| Serious eyes and your beloved brown hand hangs wilted | O |
| And your white forehead split open Oh if only | A |
| If only just once that last day I had shown you told you | P |
| Something of my love that was too timid to speak | Q |
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| But you know me you know and smiling you nod | R |
| Tonight in front of your strange castle | S |
| And you nod to your horse in the drenched forest | T |
| And you nod to your sleep to your harsh clutter of straw | U |
| And think about me and smile | V |
| And maybe | A |
| Maybe some day you will come back from the war | W |
| and take a walk with me some evening | E |
| And somebody will talk about Longwy Luttich Dammerkirch | X |
| And smile gravely and everything will be as before | W |
| And no one will speak a word of his worry | A |
| Of his worry and tenderness by night in the field | Y |
| Of his love And with a single joke | Z |
| You will frighten away the worry the war the uneasy nights | B |
| The summer lightning of shy human friendship | A2 |
| Into the cool past that will never come back | G |
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| Translated by James Wright | I |
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| Submitted by Holt | B2 |
Hermann Hesse
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