Liebestod Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDBDDEE FGFHHIHIIJJ KLKLLMLMMNN| I who conceived beneath another star | A |
| Had been a prince and played with life instead | B |
| Have been its slave an outcast exiled far | A |
| From the fair things my faith has merited | C |
| My ways have been the ways that wanderers tread | B |
| And those that make romance of poverty | D |
| Soldier I shared the soldier's board and bed | B |
| And Joy has been a thing more oft to me | D |
| Whispered by summer wind and summer sea | D |
| Than known incarnate in the hours it lies | E |
| All warm against our hearts and laughs into our eyes | E |
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| I know not if in risking my best days | F |
| I shall leave utterly behind me here | G |
| This dream that lightened me through lonesome ways | F |
| And that no disappointment made less dear | H |
| Sometimes I think that where the hilltops rear | H |
| Their white entrenchments back of tangled wire | I |
| Behind the mist Death only can make clear | H |
| There like Brunhilde ringed with flaming fire | I |
| Lies what shall ease my heart's immense desire | I |
| There where beyond the horror and the pain | J |
| Only the brave shall pass only the strong attain | J |
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| Truth or delusion be it as it may | K |
| Yet think it true dear friends for thinking so | L |
| That thought shall nerve our sinews on the day | K |
| When to the last assault our bugles blow | L |
| Reckless of pain and peril we shall go | L |
| Heads high and hearts aflame and bayonets bare | M |
| And we shall brave eternity as though | L |
| Eyes looked on us in which we would seem fair | M |
| One waited in whose presence we would wear | M |
| Even as a lover who would be well seen | N |
| Our manhood faultless and our honor clean | N |
Alan Seeger
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