Night (o You Whose Countenance) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKB LMNO P| Night O you whose countenance dissolved | A |
| in deepness hovers above my face | B |
| You who are the heaviest counterweight | C |
| to my astounding contemplation | D |
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| Night that trembles as reflected in my eyes | E |
| but in itself strong | F |
| inexhaustible creation dominant | G |
| enduring beyond the earth's endurance | H |
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| Night full of newly created stars that leave | I |
| trails of fire streaming from their seams | J |
| as they soar in inaudible adventure | K |
| through interstellar space | B |
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| how overshadowed by your all embracing vastness | L |
| I appear minute | M |
| Yet being one with the ever more darkening earth | N |
| I dare to be in you | O |
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| Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming | P |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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