The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: Xxiii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IIJ KLJ B| Call to me to the one among your moments | A |
| that stands against you ineluctably | B |
| intimate as a dog's imploring glance | C |
| but again forever turned away | D |
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| when you think you've captured it at last | E |
| What seems so far from you is most your own | F |
| We are already free and were dismissed | G |
| where we thought we soon would be at home | H |
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| Anxious we keep longing for a foothold | I |
| we at times too young for what is old | I |
| and too old for what has never been | J |
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| doing justice only where we praise | K |
| because we are the branch the iron blade | L |
| and sweet danger ripening from within | J |
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| Translated by Stephen Mitchell | B |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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