Water Lily Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJIK LMy whole life is mine but whoever says so | A |
will deprive me for it is infinite | B |
The ripple of water the shade of the sky | C |
are mine it is still the same my life | D |
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No desire opens me I am full | E |
I never close myself with refusal | F |
in the rythm of my daily soul | G |
I do not desire I am moved | H |
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by being moved I exert my empire | I |
making the dreams of night real | J |
into my body at the bottom of the water | I |
I attract the beyonds of mirrors | K |
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Translated by A Poulin | L |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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