The Spanish Dancer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD E FGHIJ AKELMNON| As on all its sides a kitchen match darts white | A |
| flickering tongues before it bursts into flame | B |
| with the audience around her quickened hot | C |
| her dance begins to flicker in the dark room | D |
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| And all at once it is completely fire | E |
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| One upward glance and she ignites her hair | F |
| and whirling faster and faster fans her dress | G |
| into passionate flames till it becomes a furnace | H |
| from which like startled rattlesnakes the long | I |
| naked arms uncoil aroused and clicking | J |
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| And then as if the fire were too tight | A |
| around her body she takes and flings it out | K |
| haughtily with an imperious gesture | E |
| and watches it lies raging on the floor | L |
| still blazing up and the flames refuse to die | M |
| Till moving with total confidence and a sweet | N |
| exultant smile she looks up finally | O |
| and stamps it out with powerful small feet | N |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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