Girl's Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEA FBGHIJ KLMNOP Q| In the years when we were | A |
| all children this inclining | B |
| to be alone so much was gentle | C |
| others' time passed fighting | B |
| and one had one's faction | D |
| one's near one's far off place | E |
| a path an animal a picture | A |
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| And I still imagined that life | F |
| would always keep providing | B |
| for one to dwell on things within | G |
| Am I within myself not in what's greatest | H |
| Shall what's mine no longer soothe | I |
| and understand me as a child | J |
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| Suddenly I'm as if cast out | K |
| and this solitude surrounds me | L |
| as something vast and unbounded | M |
| when my feeling standing on the hills | N |
| of my breasts cries out for wings | O |
| or for an end | P |
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| Translated by Edward Snow | Q |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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