Mozart's Requiem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDEFFE GGHIIH JJAKLA GGMNOM PPQRRQ SSAJJA TTUVVU HHILLI JJAWWA| These birds of Paradise but long to flee | A |
| Back to their native mansion | B |
| Prophecy of Dante | C |
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| A Requiem and for whom | D |
| For beauty in its bloom | D |
| For valour fall'n a broken rose or sword | E |
| A dirge for king or chief | F |
| With pomp of stately grief | F |
| Banner and torch and waving plume deplor'd | E |
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| Not so it is not so | G |
| The warning voice I know | G |
| From other worlds a strange mysterious tone | H |
| A solemn funeral air | I |
| It call'd me to prepare | I |
| And my heart answer'd secretly my own | H |
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| One more then one more strain | J |
| In links of joy and pain | J |
| Mighty the troubled spirit to inthrall | A |
| And let me breathe my dower | K |
| Of passion and of power | L |
| Full into that deep lay the last of all | A |
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| The last and I must go | G |
| From this bright world below | G |
| This realm of sunshine ringing with sweet sound | M |
| Must leave its festal skies | N |
| With all their melodies | O |
| That ever in my breast glad echoes found | M |
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| Yet have I known it long | P |
| Too restless and too strong | P |
| Within this clay hath been th' o'ermastering flame | Q |
| Swift thoughts that came and went | R |
| Like torrents o'er me sent | R |
| Have shaken as a reed my thrilling frame | Q |
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| Like perfumes on the wind | S |
| Which none may stay or bind | S |
| The beautiful comes floating thro' my soul | A |
| I strive with yearnings vain | J |
| The spirit to detain | J |
| Of the deep harmonies that past me roll | A |
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| Therefore disturbing dreams | T |
| Trouble the secret streams | T |
| And founts of music that o'erflow my breast | U |
| Something far more divine | V |
| Than may on earth be mine | V |
| Haunts my worn heart and will not let me rest | U |
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| Shall I then fear the tone | H |
| That breathes from worlds unknown | H |
| Surely these feverish aspirations there | I |
| Shall grasp their full desire | L |
| And this unsettled fire | L |
| Burn calmly brightly in immortal air | I |
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| One more then one more strain | J |
| To earthly joy and pain | J |
| A rich and deep and passionate farewell | A |
| I pour each fervent thought | W |
| With fear hope trembling fraught | W |
| Into the notes that o'er my dust shall swell | A |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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