On Hearing Of A Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MNFO PQRH S| We lack all knowledge of this parting Death | A |
| does not deal with us We have no reason | B |
| to show death admiration love or hate | C |
| his mask of feigned tragic lament gives us | D |
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| a false impression The world's stage is still | E |
| filled with roles which we play While we worry | F |
| that our performances may not please | G |
| death also performs although to no applause | H |
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| But as you left us there broke upon this stage | I |
| a glimpse of reality shown through the slight | J |
| opening through which you dissapeared green | K |
| evergreen bathed in sunlight actual woods | L |
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| We keep on playiing still anxious our difficult roles | M |
| declaiming accompanied by matching gestures | N |
| as required But your presence so suddenly | F |
| removed from our midst and from our play at times | O |
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| overcomes us like a sense of that other | P |
| reality yours that we are so overwhelmed | Q |
| and play our actual lives instead of the performance | R |
| forgetting altogehter the applause | H |
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| Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming | S |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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