Spanish Dancer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE F GDDDB BHDBIJKD B| As in one's hand a lighted match blinds you before | A |
| it comes aflame and sends out brilliant flickering | B |
| tongues to every side so within the ring of the | C |
| spectators her dance begins in hasty heated rhythms | D |
| and spreads itself darting flames around | E |
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| And suddenly the dance is altogether flame | F |
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| With a fierce glance she sets her hair alight | G |
| Unexpectedly she turns with daring artfulness | D |
| the swirling flounces of her dress within this | D |
| conflagaration out of which her upheld naked arms | D |
| clapping the castanets appear like serpents striking | B |
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| And then afraid her fire were diminishing | B |
| she gathers it all up and flings it down | H |
| with an imperious haughtly gesture and watches | D |
| as it lies there writhing on the ground unyielding | B |
| and unwilling to concede the dance has ended | I |
| Yet she show victory in her sweet swift smile | J |
| as she lifts up her face while with her small firm feet | K |
| she stamps out the last of the dying embers | D |
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| Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming | B |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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