The Kaiser's Feast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE FGFG HIHI CJCKLML NONO CPCP QRQRNSNS LCLC RQRQ PTPUDVDV LWLW COC XLXLALLL| The Kaiser feasted in his hall | A |
| The red wine mantled high | B |
| Banners were trembling on the wall | A |
| To the peals of minstrelsy | C |
| And many a gleam and sparkle came | D |
| From the armour hung around | E |
| As it caught the glance of the torch's flame | D |
| Or the hearth with pine boughs crown'd | E |
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| Why fell there silence on the chord | F |
| Beneath the harper's hand | G |
| And suddenly from that rich board | F |
| Why rose the wassail band | G |
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| The strings were hush'd the knights made way | H |
| For the queenly mother's tread | I |
| As up the hall in dark array | H |
| Two fair hair'd boys she led | I |
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| She led them even to the Kaiser's place | C |
| And still before him stood | J |
| Till with strange wonder o'er his face | C |
| Flush'd the proud warrior blood | K |
| And 'Speak my mother speak ' he cried | L |
| 'Wherefore this mourning vest | M |
| And the clinging children by thy side | L |
| In weeds of sadness drest ' | - |
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| 'Well may a mourning vest be mine | N |
| And theirs my son my son | O |
| Look on the features of thy line | N |
| In each fair little one | O |
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| Tho' grief awhile within their eyes | C |
| Hath tamed the dancing glee | P |
| Yet there thine own quick spirit lies | C |
| Thy brother's children see | P |
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| 'And where is he thy brother where | Q |
| He in thy home that grew | R |
| And smiling with his sunny hair | Q |
| Ever to greet thee flew | R |
| How would his arms thy neck entwine | N |
| His fond lips press thy brow | S |
| My son oh call these orphans thine | N |
| Thou hast no brother now | S |
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| 'What from their gentle eyes doth nought | L |
| Speak of thy childhood's hours | C |
| And smite thee with a tender thought | L |
| Of thy dead father's towers | C |
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| Kind was thy boyish heart and true | R |
| When rear'd together there | Q |
| Thro' the old woods like fawns ye flew | R |
| Where is thy brother where | Q |
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| 'Well didst thou love him then and he | P |
| Still at thy side was seen | T |
| How is it that such things can be | P |
| As tho' they ne'er had been | U |
| Evil was this world's breath which came | D |
| Between the good and brave | V |
| Now must the tears of grief and shame | D |
| Be offer'd to the grave | V |
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| 'And let them let them there be pour'd | L |
| Though all unfelt below | W |
| Thine own wrung heart to love restor'd | L |
| Shall soften as they flow | W |
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| Oh death is mighty to make peace | C |
| Now bid his work be done | O |
| So many an inward strife shall cease | C |
| Take take these babes my son ' | - |
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| His eye was dimm'd the strong man shook | X |
| With feelings long suppress'd | L |
| Up in his arms the boys he took | X |
| And strain'd them to his breast | L |
| And a shout from all in the royal hall | A |
| Burst forth to hail the sight | L |
| And eyes were wet midst the brave that met | L |
| At the Kaiser's feast that night | L |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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