Evening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIHJ H F

The sky puts on the darkening blue coatA
held for it by a row of ancient treesB
you watch and the lands grow distant in your sightC
one journeying to heaven one that fallsD
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and leave you not at home in either oneE
not quite so still and dark as the darkened housesF
not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomesG
a star each night and risesF
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and leave you inexpressibly to unravelH
your life with its immensity and fearI
so that now bounded now immeasurableH
it is alternately stone in you and starJ
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Translated by Stephen MitchellH
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Submitted by zenfishsticksF

Rainer Maria Rilke



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