The Cavern Of The Three Tells Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFECGHGH IFIFJKJL MFMF NONO PQPQGRGR CECESTST UJVJWXWX YWYWAGAGOh enter not yon shadowy cave | A |
Seek not the bright spars there | B |
Though the whispering pines that o'er it wave | A |
With freshness fill the air | B |
For there the Patriot Three | C |
In the garb of old array'd | D |
By their native Forest sea | C |
On a rocky couch are laid | D |
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The Patriot Three that met of yore | E |
Beneath the midnight sky | F |
And leagued their hearts on the Gr tli shore | E |
In the name of liberty | C |
Now silently they sleep | G |
Amidst the hills they freed | H |
But their rest is only deep | G |
Till their country's hour of need | H |
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They start not at the hunter's call | I |
Nor the Lammer geyer's cry | F |
Nor the rush of a sudden torrent's fall | I |
Nor the Lauwine thundering by | F |
And the Alpine herdsman's lay | J |
To a Switzer's heart so dear | K |
On the wild wind floats away | J |
No more for them to hear | L |
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But when the battle horn is blown | M |
Till the Schreckhorn's peaks reply | F |
When the Jungfrau's cliffs send back the tone | M |
Through their eagles' lonely sky | F |
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When spear heads light the lakes | N |
When trumpets loose the snows | O |
When the rushing war steed shakes | N |
The glacier's mute repose | O |
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When Uri's beechen woods wave red | P |
In the burning hamlet's light | Q |
Then from the cavern of the dead | P |
Shall the sleepers wake in might | Q |
With a leap like Tell's proud leap | G |
When away the helm he flung | R |
And boldly up the steep | G |
From the flashing billow sprung | R |
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They shall wake beside their Forest sea | C |
In the ancient garb they wore | E |
When they link'd the hands that made us free | C |
On the Gr tli's moonlight shore | E |
And their voices shall be heard | S |
And be answer'd with a shout | T |
Till the echoing Alps are stirr'd | S |
And the signal fires blaze out | T |
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And the land shall see such deeds again | U |
As those of that proud day | J |
When Winkelried on Sempach's plain | V |
Through the serried spears made way | J |
And when the rocks came down | W |
On the dark Morgarten dell | X |
And the crowned casques o'erthrown | W |
Before our fathers fell | X |
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For the K hreihen's notes must never sound | Y |
In a land that wears the chain | W |
And the vines on freedom's holy ground | Y |
Untrampled must remain | W |
And the yellow harvests wave | A |
For no stranger's hand to reap | G |
While within their silent cave | A |
The men of Gr tli sleep | G |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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