The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: Vi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFG HIJ KLM N| Rose you majesty once to the ancients you were | A |
| just a calyx with the simplest of rims | B |
| But for us you are the full the numberless flower | A |
| the inexhaustible countenance | C |
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| In your wealth you seem to be wearing gown upon gown | D |
| upon a body of nothing but light | E |
| yet each seperate petal is at the same time the negation | F |
| of all clothing and the refusal of it | G |
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| Your fragrance has been calling its sweetest names | H |
| in our direction for hundreds of years | I |
| suddenly it hangs in the air like fame | J |
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| Even so we have never known what to call it we guess | K |
| And memory is filled with it unawares | L |
| which we prayed for from hours that belong to us | M |
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| Translated by Stephen Mitchell | N |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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