Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFAEDGHIDD| Exposed on the cliffs of the heart Look how tiny down there | A |
| look the last village of words and higher | B |
| but how tiny still one last | C |
| farmhouse of feeling Can you see it | D |
| Exposed on the cliffs of the heart Stoneground | D |
| under your hands Even here though | E |
| something can bloom on a silent cliff edge | F |
| an unknowing plant blooms singing into the air | A |
| But the one who knows Ah he began to know | E |
| and is quiet now exposed on the cliffs of the heart | D |
| While with their full awareness | G |
| many sure footed mountain animals pass | H |
| or linger And the great sheltered birds flies slowly | I |
| circling around the peak's pure denial But | D |
| without a shelter here on the cliffs of the heart | D |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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