Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHIJJBKLMNMOB C| Everything is far | A |
| and long gone by | B |
| I think that the star | A |
| glittering above me | C |
| has been dead for a million years | D |
| I think there were tears | E |
| in the car I heard pass | F |
| and something terrible was said | G |
| A clock has stopped striking in the house | H |
| across the road | I |
| When did it start | J |
| I would like to step out of my heart | J |
| an go walking beneath the enormous sky | B |
| I would like to pray | K |
| And surely of all the stars that perished | L |
| long ago | M |
| one still exists | N |
| I think that I know | M |
| which one it is | O |
| which one at the end of its beam in the sky | B |
| stands like a white city | C |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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