The Sonnets To Orpheus: I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBD EBFB GHI JKJ L| A | |
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| A tree ascended there Oh pure transendence | B |
| Oh Orpheus sings Oh tall tree in the ear | C |
| And all things hushed Yet even in that silence | B |
| a new beginning beckoning change appeared | D |
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| Creatures of stillness crowded from the bright | E |
| unbound forest out of their lairs and nests | B |
| and it was not from any dullness not | F |
| from fear that they were so quiet in themselves | B |
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| but from just listening Bellow roar shriek | G |
| seemed small inside their hearts And where there had been | H |
| at most a makeshift hut to receive the music | I |
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| a shelter nailed up out of their darkest longing | J |
| with an entryway that shuddered in the wind | K |
| you built a temple deep inside their hearing | J |
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| Translated by Stephen Mitchell | L |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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