The Sonnets To Orpheus: Xxv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGGH IJGK GKL MBut you now dear girl whom I loved like a flower whose | A |
name | B |
I didn't know you who so early were taken away | C |
I will once more call up your image and show it to them | D |
beautiful companion of the unsubduable cry | E |
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Dancer whose body filled with your hesitant fate | F |
pausing as though your young flesh had been cast in bronze | G |
grieving and listening Then from the high dominions | G |
unearthly music fell into your altered heart | H |
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Already possessed by shadows with illness near | I |
your blood flowed darkly yet though for a moment | J |
suspicious | G |
it burst out into the natural pulses of spring | K |
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Again and again interrupted by downfall and darkness | G |
earthly it gleamed Till after a terrible pounding | K |
it entered the inconsolably open door | L |
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Translated by Stephen Mitchell | M |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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