The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: Xiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFG HIJ KLM N| Be ahead of all parting as though it already were | A |
| behind you like the winter that has just gone by | B |
| For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter | A |
| that only by wintering through it all will your heart survive | C |
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| Be forever dead in Eurydice more gladly arise | D |
| into the seamless life proclaimed in your song | E |
| Here in the realm of decline among momentary days | F |
| be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang | G |
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| Be and yet know the great void where all things begin | H |
| the infinite source of your own most intense vibration | I |
| so that this once you may give it your perfect assent | J |
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| To all that is used up and to all the muffled and dumb | K |
| creatures in the world's full reserve the unsayable sums | L |
| joyfully add yourself and cancel the count | M |
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| Translated by Stephen Mitchell | N |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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