Sacrifice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGB HCCIJ K| How my body blooms from every vein | A |
| more fragrantly since you appeard to me | B |
| look I walk slimmer now and straighter | C |
| and all you do is wait who are you then | D |
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| Look I feel how I'm moving away | E |
| how I'm shedding my old life leaf by leaf | F |
| Only your smile spreads like sheer stars | G |
| over you and soon now over me | B |
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| Whatever shines through my childhood years | H |
| still nameless and gleaming like water | C |
| I will name after you at the altar | C |
| which is blazing brightly from your hair | I |
| and braided gently with your breasts | J |
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| Translated by Edward Snow | K |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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