Venetian Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ABBEBF BGGH I| Windows pampered like princes always see | A |
| what on occasion deigns to trouble us | B |
| the city that time and again where a shimmer | C |
| of sky strikes a feeling of floodtide | D |
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| takes shape without once choosing to be | A |
| Each new morning must first show her the opals | B |
| she wore yesterday and pull rows | B |
| of reflections out of the canal | E |
| and remind her of the other times | B |
| only then does she concede and settle in | F |
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| like a nymph who received great Zeus | B |
| The dangling earrings ring out at her ear | G |
| but she lifts San Giorgio Maggiore | G |
| and smiles idly into that lovely thing | H |
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| Translated by Edward Snow | I |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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