Ode To Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDBBEFGHGIJFK LMNOFPGP PQRQ QGPSBBBBPB BTPPBBGB| Wild and fearful in his cavern | A |
| Hid the naked troglodyte | B |
| And the homeless nomad wandered | B |
| Laying waste the fertile plain | C |
| Menacing with spear and arrow | D |
| In the woods the hunter strayed | B |
| Woe to all poor wreteches stranded | B |
| On those cruel and hostile shores | E |
| From the peak of high Olympus | F |
| Came the mother Ceres down | G |
| Seeeking in those savage regions | H |
| Her lost daughter Prosperine | G |
| But the Goddess found no refuge | I |
| Found no kindly welcome there | J |
| And no temple bearing witness | F |
| To the worship of the gods | K |
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| From the fields and from the vineyards | L |
| Came no fruit to deck the feasts | M |
| Only flesh of blood stained victims | N |
| Smouldered on the alter fires | O |
| And where'er the grieving goddess | F |
| Turns her melancholy gaze | P |
| Sunk in vilest degradation | G |
| Man his loathsomeness displays | P |
| - | |
| Would he purge his soul from vileness | P |
| And attain to light and worth | Q |
| He must turn and cling forever | R |
| To his ancient Mother Earth | Q |
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| Joy everlasting fostereth | Q |
| The soul of all creation | G |
| It is her secret ferment fires | P |
| The cup of life with flame | S |
| 'Tis at her beck the grass hath turned | B |
| Each blade toward the light | B |
| and solar systems have evolved | B |
| From chaos and dark night | B |
| Filling the realms of boundless space | P |
| Beyond the sage's sight | B |
| - | |
| At bounteous nature's kindly breast | B |
| All things that breath drink Joy | T |
| And bird and beasts and creaping things | P |
| All follow where she leads | P |
| Her gifts to man are friends in need | B |
| The wreath the foaming must | B |
| To angels visions of God's throne | G |
| To insects sensual lust | B |
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