Archaic Torso Of Apollo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHI JKLWe cannot know his legendary head | A |
with eyes like ripening fruit And yet his torso | B |
is still suffused with brilliance from inside | C |
like a lamp in which his gaze now turned to low | B |
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gleams in all its power Otherwise | D |
the curved breast could not dazzle you so nor could | E |
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs | D |
to that dark center where procreation flared | F |
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Otherwise this stone would seem defaced | G |
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders | H |
and would not glisten like a wild beast s fur | I |
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would not from all the borders of itself | J |
burst like a star for here there is no place | K |
that does not see you You must change your life | L |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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