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 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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