Archaic Torso Of Apollo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDF GHI JKL

We cannot know his legendary headA
with eyes like ripening fruit And yet his torsoB
is still suffused with brilliance from insideC
like a lamp in which his gaze now turned to lowB
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gleams in all its power OtherwiseD
the curved breast could not dazzle you so nor couldE
a smile run through the placid hips and thighsD
to that dark center where procreation flaredF
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Otherwise this stone would seem defacedG
beneath the translucent cascade of the shouldersH
and would not glisten like a wild beast s furI
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would not from all the borders of itselfJ
burst like a star for here there is no placeK
that does not see you You must change your lifeL

Rainer Maria Rilke



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