Translations From Goethe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDEED A FGFG HIHI A JK LK D JMNA A OJPI| I | A |
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| Over every hill | B |
| All is still | B |
| In no leaf of any tree | C |
| Can you see | C |
| The motion of a breath | D |
| Every bird has ceased its song | E |
| Wait and thou too ere long | E |
| Shall be quiet in death | D |
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| II | A |
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| Who ne'er his bread with tears hath ate | F |
| Who never through the sad night hours | G |
| Weeping upon his bed hath sate | F |
| He knows not you you heavenly powers | G |
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| Forth into life you bid us go | H |
| And into guilt you let us fall | I |
| Then leave us to endure the woe | H |
| It brings unfailingly to all | I |
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| III | A |
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| You complain of the woman for roving from one to another | J |
| Where is the constant man whom she is trying to find | K |
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| IV | - |
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| Slumber and Sleep two brothers appointed to serve the immortals | L |
| By Prometheus were brought hither to comfort mankind | K |
| But what in heaven was light to human creatures was heavy | - |
| Slumber became our Sleep Sleep unto mortals was Death | D |
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| V | - |
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| Oh the beautiful child and oh the most happy mother | J |
| She in her infant blessed and in its mother the babe | M |
| What sweet longing within me this picture might not occasion | N |
| Were I not Joseph like you calmly condemned to standby | A |
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| VI | A |
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| Diogenes by his tub contenting himself with the sunshine | O |
| And Calanus with joy mounting his funeral pyre | J |
| Great examples were these for the eager approving of Philip | P |
| But for the Conqueror of Earth were as the earth was too small | I |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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