Lohengrin Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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THE holy bell untouched by human handsA
Clanged suddenly and tolled with solemn knellB
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Between the massive blazoned temple doorsC
Thrown wide to let the summer morning inD
Sir Lohengrin the youngest of the knightsE
Had paused to taste the sweetness of the airF
All sounds came up the mountain side to himG
Softened to music noise of laboring menH
The cheerful cock crow and the low of kineH
Bleating of sheep and twittering of the birdsI
Commingled into murmurous harmoniesJ
When harsh and near and clamorous tolled the bellB
He started with his hand upon his swordK
His face an instant since serene and fairF
And simple with the beauty of a boyL
Heroic flushed expectant all at onceM
The lovely valley stretching out beneathN
Was now a painted picture nothing moreO
All music of the mountain or the valeP
Rang meaningless to him who heard the bellB
'I stand upon the threshold and am called '-
His clear young voice shrilled gladly through the airF
And backward through the sounding corridorsQ
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'And have ye heard the bell my brother knightsE
Untouched by human hands or winds of heavenH
It called me yea it called my very name '-
So breathing still of morning LohengrinH
Sprang 'midst the gathering circle of the knightsE
Eager exalted 'Nay it called us allR
It rang as it hath often rung beforeO
Because the good cause somewhere on the earthS
Requires a champion ' with a serious smileT
An older gravely answered 'Where to goU
We know not and we know not whom to serve '-
Then spake Sir Percivale their holiest knightV
And father of the young Sir LohengrinH
'All that to us seems old familiar staleP
Unto the boy is vision miracleW
Cross him not brethren in his first desireX
I will dare swear the summons rang to himG
Not sternly solemn as it tolled to usY
But gracious sweet and gay as marriage bells '-
His pious hands above the young man's headZ
Wandered in blessing lightly touching itA2
As fondly as a mother 'LohengrinH
My son farewell God send thee faith and strength '-
' God send me patience and humility '-
Murmured the boyish knight from contrite heartB2
With head downcast for those anointing handsA
Then raising suddenly wide innocent eyesC2
'Father my faith is boundless as God's love '-
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Complete in glittering silver armor cladD2
With silver maiden shield blank of deviceE2
Sir Lohengrin rode down the MontsalvatschF2
With Percivale and Tristram FrimutelleW
And Eliduc to speed him on his questG2
They fared in silence for the elder knightsE
Were filled with grave misgivings solemn thoughtsH2
Of fate and sorrow and they heard the bellW
Tolling incessant while Sir LohengrinH
Buoyant with hope and dreaming like a girlW
With wild blood dancing in his veins had madeI2
The journey down the mount unconsciouslyW
Surprised to find that he had reached the valeW
Distinct and bowered in green the mountain loomedJ2
Topped with the wondrous temple with its crossK2
Smitten to splendor by the eastern sunH
Around them lay the valley beautifulW
Imparadised with flowers and light of JuneH
And through the valley flowed a willowy streamL2
Golden and gray at this delicious hourX
With purity and sunshine Here the knightsE
Irresolute gave pause which path to chooseM2
'God lead me right ' said meek Sir LohengrinH
And as he spoke afar upon the streamL2
He saw a shining swan approaching themN2
Full breasted with the current it sailed downH
Dazzling in sun and shadow air and waveO2
With unseen movement wings a little spreadZ
Their downy under feathers flutteringP2
Stirred by its stately progress in its beakQ2
It held a silver chain and drew therebyR2
A dainty carven shallop after itA2
Embossed with silver and with ivoryW
'Lead ye my charger up the mount again '-
Cried Lohengrin and leaped unto the groundS2
'For I will trust my guidance to the swan '-
' Nay hold Sir Lohengrin ' said EliducQ2
' Thou hast not made provision for this quest '-
' God will provide ' the pious knight repliedT2
Then Percival 'Be faithful to thy vowsU2
Bethink thee of thine oath when thou art askedV2
Thy mission in the temple or thy raceW2
Farewell farewell ' 'Farewell ' cried LohengrinH
And sprang into the shallop as it passedX2
And waved farewells unto his brother knightsE
Until they saw the white and silver shineH
Of boat and swan and armor less and lessY2
Till in the willowy distance they were lostZ2
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Skirting the bases of the rolling hillsA3
He glided on the river hour by hourX
All through the endless summer day At firstB3
On either side the willows brushed his boatC3
Then underneath their sweeping arch he passedX2
Into a rich enchanted wildernessY
Cool full of mystic shadows and rare lightsE
Wherein the very river changed its hueD3
Reflecting tender shades of waving greenH
And mossy undergrowth of grass and fernH
Here yellow lilies floated 'midst broad leavesE3
Upon their reedy stalks and far belowW
Beneath the flags and rushes coppery breamL2
Sedately sailed and flickering perch and daceW2
With silvery lustres caught the glancing raysF3
Of the June sun upon their mottled scalesG3
'Midst the close sedge the bright eyed water mouseH3
Nibbled its food while overhead its kinH
The squirrel frisked among the trees The airF
Was full of life and sound of restless birdsI
Darting with gayer tints of red and blueD3
And speckled plumage 'mid gray willow leavesE3
And sober alders and light foliaged birchF2
Unnumbered insects fluttered o'er the banksI3
Some dimpling the smooth river's slippery floorO
Leaping from point to point Then passed the knightV
'Twixt broad fields basking in excess of lightV
And girt around by range on range of hillsA3
Green umber purple waving limitlessY
Unto the radiant crystal of the skyQ2
Through unfamiliar solitudes the swanH
Still led him and he saw no living thingQ2
Save creatures of the wood no human faceW2
Nor sign of human dwelling But he sailedJ3
Holding high thoughts and vowing valorous vowsU2
Filled with vast wonder and keen happinessY
At the world's very beauty and his lifeK3
Opened in spacious vistas measurelessY
As lovely as the stream that bore him onH
So dazzled was the boyish LohengrinH
By all the vital beauty of the realW
And the yet wilder beauty of his dreamsY
That he had lost all sense of passing timeL3
And woke as from a trance of centuriesY
To find himself within the heart of hillsY
The river widened to an ample lakeQ2
And the swan faring towards a narrow gorgeM3
That seemed to lead him to the sunset cloudsY
Suffused with color were the extremest heightsY
The river rippled in a glassy floodN3
Glorying in the glory of the skyQ2
O what a moment for a man to takeQ2
Down with him in his memory to the graveO2
Life at that hour appeared as infiniteO3
As expectation sacred wonderfulW
A vision and a privilege The streamL2
Lessened to force its way through rocky wallsY
Then swerved and flowed a purple brook through woodsY
Dewy with evening sunless odorousY
There Lohengrin with eyes upon the streamL2
Now brighter than the earth saw deep and clearP3
The delicate splendor of the earliest starQ3
All night too full of sweet expectancyY
Too reverent of the loveliness for sleepR3
He watched the rise and setting of the starsY
All things were new upon that magic dayS3
Suggesting nobler possibilitiesY
For a life passed in wise serenityY
Confided with sublimely simple faithT3
Unto the guidance of the higher willW
In the still heavens hung the large round moonH
White on the blue black ripples glitteringQ2
And rolled soft floods of slumberous misty lightV
Over dim fields and colorless huge hillsY
But the pure swan still bore its burden onH
The ivory shallop and the silver knightV
Pale faced in that white lustre neither madeI2
For any port but seemed to float at willW
Aimlessly in a strange unpeopled landU3
So passed the short fair night and morning brokeQ2
Upon the river where it flowed through flatsY
Wide fresh and vague in gray uncertain dawnH
With cool air sweet from leagues of dewy grassY
Then 'midst the flush and beauty of the eastV3
The risen sun made all the river flowW
Smitten witA2

Emma Lazarus



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