The Song Of The Blindman Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDE BFFGHIJ KBLMNO H| I am blind you out there that is a curse | A |
| against one's will a contradiction | B |
| a heavy daily burden | B |
| I lay my hand on the arm of my wife | C |
| my grey hand upon her greyer grey | D |
| as she guides me through empty spaces | E |
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| You move about and stir and imagine | B |
| your sounds differing from stone to stone | F |
| But you are mistaken I alone | F |
| live and suffer and complain for | G |
| in me is an endless crying | H |
| and I do not know whether it is | I |
| my heart that cries or my bowels | J |
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| Do you recognize these songs You never sang them | K |
| not quite with this intonation | B |
| For you every morning brings its new light | L |
| warm through your open windows | M |
| And you have the feeling from face to face | N |
| that tempts you to be indulgent | O |
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| Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming | H |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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