The Last Supper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKELMD N O| They are assembled astonished and disturbed | A |
| round him who like a sage resolved his fate | B |
| and now leaves those to whom he most belonged | C |
| leaving and passing by them like a stranger | D |
| The loneliness of old comes over him | E |
| which helped mature him for his deepest acts | F |
| now will he once again walk through the olive grove | G |
| and those who love him still will flee before his sight | H |
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| To this last supper he has summoned them | I |
| and like a shot that scatters birds from trees | J |
| their hands draw back from reaching for the loaves | K |
| upon his word they fly across to him | E |
| they flutter frightened round the supper table | L |
| searching for an escape But he is present | M |
| everywhere like an all pervading twilight hour | D |
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| On seeing Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper Milan | N |
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| Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming | O |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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