The Grown-up Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB DEFDGDH IJDK L| All this stood upon her and was the world | A |
| and stood upon her with all its fear and grace | B |
| as trees stand growing straight up imageless | B |
| yet wholly image like the Ark of God | C |
| and solemn as if imposed upon a race | B |
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| As she endured it all bore up under | D |
| the swift as flight the fleeting the far gone | E |
| the inconceivably vast the still to learn | F |
| serenely as a woman carrying water | D |
| moves with a full jug Till in the midst of play | G |
| transfiguring and preparing for the future | D |
| the first white veil descended gliding softly | H |
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| over her opened face almost opaque there | I |
| never to be lifted off again and somehow | J |
| giving to all her questions just one answer | D |
| In you who were a child once in you | K |
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| Translated by Stephen Mitchell | L |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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