Woman In Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCD EBFB GHIJ BKI BHBB BLMN| That is my window Just now | A |
| I have so softly wakened | B |
| I thought that I would float | B |
| How far does my life reach | C |
| and where does the night begin | D |
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| I could think that everything | E |
| was still me all around | B |
| transparent like a crystal's | F |
| depths darkened mute | B |
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| I could keep even the stars | G |
| within me so immense | H |
| my heart seems to me so willingly | I |
| it let him go again | J |
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| whom I began perhaps to love perhaps to hold | B |
| Like something strange undreamt of | K |
| my fate now gazes at me | I |
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| For what then am I stretched out | B |
| beneath this endlessness | H |
| exuding fragrance like a meadow | B |
| swayed this way and that | B |
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| calling out and frightened | B |
| that someone will hear the call | L |
| and destined to disappear | M |
| inside some other life | N |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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