Childhood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKJ LMNOPI| It would be good to give much thought before | A |
| you try to find words for something so lost | B |
| for those long childhood afternoons you knew | C |
| that vanished so completely and why | D |
| - | |
| We're still reminded sometimes by a rain | E |
| but we can no longer say what it means | F |
| life was never again so filled with meeting | G |
| with reunion and with passing on | H |
| - | |
| as back then when nothing happened to us | I |
| except what happens to things and creatures | J |
| we lived their world as something human | K |
| and became filled to the brim with figures | J |
| - | |
| And became as lonely as a sheperd | L |
| and as overburdened by vast distances | M |
| and summoned and stirred as from far away | N |
| and slowly like a long new thread | O |
| introduced into that picture sequence | P |
| where now having to go on bewilders us | I |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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