Growing Old Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHI JKLM NOOP P| In some summers there is so much fruit | A |
| the peasants decide not to reap any more | B |
| Not having reaped you oh my days | C |
| my nights have I let the slow flames | D |
| of your lovely produce fall into ashes | E |
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| My nights my days you have borne so much | F |
| All your branches have retained the gesture | G |
| of that long labor you are rising from | H |
| my days my nights Oh my rustic friends | I |
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| I look for what was so good for you | J |
| Oh my lovely half dead trees | K |
| could some equal sweetness still | L |
| stroke your leaves open your calyx | M |
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| Ah no more fruit But one last time | N |
| bloom in fruitless blossoming | O |
| without planning without reckoning | O |
| as useless as the powers of millenia | P |
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| Translated by A Poulin | P |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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