The Neighbor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFBA GHGI H| Strange violin why do you follow me | A |
| In how many foreign cities did you | B |
| speak of your lonely nights and those of mine | C |
| Are you being played by hundreds Or by one | D |
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| Do in all great cities men exist | E |
| who tormented and in deep despair | F |
| would have sought the river but for you | B |
| And why does your playing always reach me | A |
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| Why is it that I am always neighbor | G |
| to those lost ones who are forced to sing | H |
| and to say Life is infinitely heavier | G |
| than the heaviness of all things | I |
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| Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming | H |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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