What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFAGHF F| What birds plunge through is not the intimate space | A |
| in which you see all Forms intensified | B |
| In the Open denied you would lose yourself | C |
| would disappear into that vastness | D |
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| Space reaches from us and translates Things | E |
| to become the very essence of a tree | F |
| throw inner space around it from that space | A |
| that lives in you Encircle it with restraint | G |
| It has no limits For the first time shaped | H |
| in your renouncing it becomes fully tree | F |
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| Submitted and Translated by Gabriel Caffrey | F |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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