You Who Never Arrived Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMN OPQRNSTUIVWXE| You who never arrived | A |
| in my arms Beloved who were lost | B |
| from the start | C |
| I don't even know what songs | D |
| would please you I have given up trying | E |
| to recognize you in the surging wave of | F |
| the next moment All the immense | G |
| images in me the far off deeply felt | H |
| landscape cities towers and bridges and | I |
| unsuspected turns in the path | J |
| and those powerful lands that were once | K |
| pulsing with the life of the gods | L |
| all rise within me to mean | M |
| you who forever elude me | N |
| - | |
| You Beloved who are all | O |
| the gardens I have ever gazed at | P |
| longing An open window | Q |
| in a country house and you almost | R |
| stepped out pensive to meet me | N |
| Streets that I chanced upon | S |
| you had just walked down them and vanished | T |
| And sometimes in a shop the mirrors | U |
| were still dizzy with your presence and | I |
| startled gave back my too sudden image | V |
| Who knows Perhaps the same | W |
| bird echoed through both of us | X |
| yesterday separate in the evening | E |
Rainer Maria Rilke
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