Archaic Torso Of Apollo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHI JKL| We 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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