From The Tenth Elegy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGHCICJKLMNOPC QNHCERSCGCTBU V| Ah but the City of Pain how strange its streets are | A |
| the false silence of sound drowning sound | B |
| and there proud brazen effluence from the mold of emptiness | C |
| the gilded hubbub the bursting monument | D |
| How an Angel would stamp out their market of solaces | C |
| set up alongside their church bought to order | E |
| clean and closed and woeful as a post office on Sunday | F |
| Outside though there's always the billowing edge of the fair | G |
| Swings of Freedom High divers and Jugglers of Zeal | H |
| And the shooting gallery with its figures of idiot Happiness | C |
| which jump quiver and fall with a tinny ring | I |
| whenever some better marksman scores Onward he lurches from cheers | C |
| to chance for booths courting each curious taste | J |
| are drumming and barking And then for adults only | K |
| a special show how money breeds its anatomy not some charade | L |
| money's genitals everything the whole act | M |
| from beginning to end educational and guaranteed to make you | N |
| virile | O |
| Oh but just beyond that | P |
| behind the last of the billboards plastered with signs for Deathless | C |
| that bitter beer which tastes sweet to those drinking it | Q |
| as long as they have fresh distractions to chew | N |
| just beyond those boards just on the other side things are real | H |
| Children play lovers hold each other off in the shadows | C |
| pensive on the meager grass while dogs obey nature | E |
| The youth is drawn farther on perhaps he's fallen in love | R |
| with a young Lament He pursues her enters meadowland | S |
| She says | C |
| It's a long way We live out there | G |
| Where And the youth follows | C |
| Something in her bearing stirs him Her shoulders neck | T |
| perhaps she's of noble descent Still he leaves her turns around | B |
| glances back waves What's the use She's a Lament | U |
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| Translated by Edward Snow | V |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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