The Sonnets To Orpheus: Xxv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGGH IJGK GKL M

But you now dear girl whom I loved like a flower whoseA
nameB
I didn't know you who so early were taken awayC
I will once more call up your image and show it to themD
beautiful companion of the unsubduable cryE
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Dancer whose body filled with your hesitant fateF
pausing as though your young flesh had been cast in bronzeG
grieving and listening Then from the high dominionsG
unearthly music fell into your altered heartH
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Already possessed by shadows with illness nearI
your blood flowed darkly yet though for a momentJ
suspiciousG
it burst out into the natural pulses of springK
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Again and again interrupted by downfall and darknessG
earthly it gleamed Till after a terrible poundingK
it entered the inconsolably open doorL
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Translated by Stephen MitchellM

Rainer Maria Rilke



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