Self-portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDECFG HGICJ G| The steadfastness of generations of nobility | A |
| shows in the curving lines that form the eyebrows | B |
| And the blue eyes still show traces of childhood fears | C |
| and of humility here and there not of a servant's | C |
| yet of one who serves obediantly and of a woman | D |
| The mouth formed as a mouth large and accurate | E |
| not given to long phrases but to express | C |
| persuasively what is right The forehead without guile | F |
| and favoring the shadows of quiet downward gazing | G |
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| This as a coherent whole only casually observed | H |
| never as yet tried in suffering or succeeding | G |
| held together for an enduring fulfillment | I |
| yet so as if for times to come out of these scattered things | C |
| something serious and lasting were being planned | J |
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| Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming | G |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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