To Lou Andreas-salome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGHIDJ KLMHNODPJ QRST UHVWXTYDZ A2| I held myself too open I forgot | A |
| that outside not just things exist and animals | B |
| fully at ease in themselves whose eyes | C |
| reach from their lives' roundedness no differently | D |
| than portraits do from frames forgot that I | E |
| with all I did incessantly crammed | F |
| looks into myself looks opinion curiosity | D |
| Who knows perhaps eyes form in space | G |
| and look on everywhere Ah only plunged toward you | H |
| does my face cease being on display grows | I |
| into you and twines on darkly endlessly | D |
| into your sheltered heart | J |
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| As one puts a handkerchief before pent in breath | K |
| no as one presses it against a wound | L |
| out of which the whole of life in a single gush | M |
| wants to stream I held you to me I saw you | H |
| turn red from me How could anyone express | N |
| what took place between us We made up for everything | O |
| there was never time for I matured strangely | D |
| in every impulse of unperformed youth | P |
| and you love had wildest childhood over my heart | J |
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| Memory won't suffice here from those moments | Q |
| there must be layers of pure existence | R |
| on my being's floor a precipitate | S |
| from that immensely overfilled solution | T |
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| For I don't think back all that I am | U |
| stirs me because of you I don't invent you | H |
| at sadly cooled off places from which | V |
| you've gone away even your not being there | W |
| is warm with you and more real and more | X |
| than a privation Longing leads out too often | T |
| into vagueness Why should I cast myself when | Y |
| for all I know your influence falls on me | D |
| gently like moonlight on a window seat | Z |
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| Translated by A Poulin | A2 |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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