Lohengrin: Proem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCC DCDCCEF GHIHHJJ KLCLLBB| THE alert and valiant faith that could respond | A |
| Upon life's threshold to the highest call | B |
| Unquestioning of what might lie beyond | A |
| Courage afield and courtesy in hall | B |
| And sweet unbroken patience therewithal | B |
| And simple loyalty can these things be | C |
| The virtues that have died with chivalry | C |
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| The lapsing stream that leads to love and fate | D |
| Now mystic shadowed and now broad and free | C |
| Reflecting all the gold of heaven's gate | D |
| The snowy bird's symbolic purity | C |
| The toilsome contest and the victory | C |
| The troubled joy of life and after these | E |
| The crowning guerdon of the perfect peace | F |
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| These dreams have filled my dazzled sense and brain | G |
| With images so vivid that at last | H |
| I wake to life and find them all again | I |
| Repeated in the present as the past | H |
| The hues recolored and the forms recast | H |
| And in familiar eyes I see outshine | J |
| The old heroic faith in love divine | J |
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| No empty fable of a day long dead | K |
| No baseless vision of some sanguine saint | L |
| No legend only half remember d | C |
| Of prowess obsolete and virtues quaint | L |
| But be this rather a reflection faint | L |
| Of that which taught me how the near and real | B |
| Surpass in strength and beauty the ideal | B |
Emma Lazarus
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