Portrait Of My Father As A Young Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHIJK LJ| In the eyes dream The brow as if it could feel | A |
| something far off Around the lips a great | B |
| freshness seductive though there is no smile | C |
| Under the rows of ornamental braid | D |
| on the slim Imperial officer's uniform | E |
| the saber's basket hilt Both hands stay | F |
| folded upon it going nowhere calm | G |
| and now almost invisible as if they | F |
| were the first to grasp the distance and dissolve | H |
| And all the rest so curtained within itself | I |
| so cloudy that I cannot understand | J |
| this figure as it fades into the background | K |
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| Oh quickly disappearing photograph | L |
| in my more slowly disappearing hand | J |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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