Cassandra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD AEAECFCF GHGIGFGF AJAJAKAK AFAFALAL JJJJKKKK AMANJJJJ CACAOKOK KKKKAFAF KJKJPFPF AFAFCKCK AJAJAJAJ FQFOOFOF AOAOCJCJ ARARJOJO AJAJFOFOMirth the halls of Troy was filling | A |
Ere its lofty ramparts fell | B |
From the golden lute so thrilling | A |
Hymns of joy were heard to swell | B |
From the sad and tearful slaughter | C |
All had laid their arms aside | D |
For Pelides Priam's daughter | C |
Claimed then as his own fair bride | D |
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Laurel branches with them bearing | A |
Troop on troop in bright array | E |
To the temples were repairing | A |
Owning Thymbrius' sovereign sway | E |
Through the streets with frantic measure | C |
Danced the bacchanal mad round | F |
And amid the radiant pleasure | C |
Only one sad breast was found | F |
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Joyless in the midst of gladness | G |
None to heed her none to love | H |
Roamed Cassandra plunged in sadness | G |
To Apollo's laurel grove | I |
To its dark and deep recesses | G |
Swift the sorrowing priestess hied | F |
And from off her flowing tresses | G |
Tore the sacred band and cried | F |
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All around with joy is beaming | A |
Ev'ry heart is happy now | J |
And my sire is fondly dreaming | A |
Wreathed with flowers my sister's brow | J |
I alone am doomed to wailing | A |
That sweet vision flies from me | K |
In my mind these walls assailing | A |
Fierce destruction I can see | K |
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Though a torch I see all glowing | A |
Yet 'tis not in Hymen's hand | F |
Smoke across the skies is blowing | A |
Yet 'tis from no votive brand | F |
Yonder see I feasts entrancing | A |
But in my prophetic soul | L |
Hear I now the God advancing | A |
Who will steep in tears the bowl | L |
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And they blame my lamentation | J |
And they laugh my grief to scorn | J |
To the haunts of desolation | J |
I must bear my woes forlorn | J |
All who happy are now shun me | K |
And my tears with laughter see | K |
Heavy lies thy hand upon me | K |
Cruel Pythian deity | K |
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Thy divine decrees foretelling | A |
Wherefore hast thou thrown me here | M |
Where the ever blind are dwelling | A |
With a mind alas too clear | N |
Wherefore hast thou power thus given | J |
What must needs occur to know | J |
Wrought must be the will of Heaven | J |
Onward come the hour of woe | J |
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When impending fate strikes terror | C |
Why remove the covering | A |
Life we have alone in error | C |
Knowledge with it death must bring | A |
Take away this prescience tearful | O |
Take this sight of woe from me | K |
Of thy truths alas how fearful | O |
'Tis the mouthpiece frail to be | K |
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Veil my mind once more in slumbers | K |
Let me heedlessly rejoice | K |
Never have I sung glad numbers | K |
Since I've been thy chosen voice | K |
Knowledge of the future giving | A |
Thou hast stolen the present day | F |
Stolen the moment's joyous living | A |
Take thy false gift then away | F |
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Ne'er with bridal train around me | K |
Have I wreathed my radiant brow | J |
Since to serve thy fane I bound me | K |
Bound me with a solemn vow | J |
Evermore in grief I languish | P |
All my youth in tears was spent | F |
And with thoughts of bitter anguish | P |
My too feeling heart is rent | F |
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Joyously my friends are playing | A |
All around are blest and glad | F |
In the paths of pleasure straying | A |
My poor heart alone is sad | F |
Spring in vain unfolds each treasure | C |
Filling all the earth with bliss | K |
Who in life can e'er take pleasure | C |
When is seen its dark abyss | K |
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With her heart in vision burning | A |
Truly blest is Polyxene | J |
As a bride to clasp him yearning | A |
Him the noblest best Hellene | J |
And her breast with rapture swelling | A |
All its bliss can scarcely know | J |
E'en the Gods in heavenly dwelling | A |
Envying not when dreaming so | J |
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He to whom my heart is plighted | F |
Stood before my ravished eye | Q |
And his look by passion lighted | F |
Toward me turned imploringly | O |
With the loved one oh how gladly | O |
Homeward would I take my flight | F |
But a Stygian shadow sadly | O |
Steps between us every night | F |
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Cruel Proserpine is sending | A |
All her spectres pale to me | O |
Ever on my steps attending | A |
Those dread shadowy forms I see | O |
Though I seek in mirth and laughter | C |
Refuge from that ghastly train | J |
Still I see them hastening after | C |
Ne'er shall I know joy again | J |
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And I see the death steel glancing | A |
And the eye of murder glare | R |
On with hasty strides advancing | A |
Terror haunts me everywhere | R |
Vain I seek alleviation | J |
Knowing seeing suffering all | O |
I must wait the consummation | J |
In a foreign land must fall | O |
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While her solemn words are ringing | A |
Hark a dull and wailing tone | J |
From the temple's gate upspringing | A |
Dead lies Thetis' mighty son | J |
Eris shakes her snake locks hated | F |
Swiftly flies each deity | O |
And o'er Ilion's walls ill fated | F |
Thunder clouds loom heavily | O |
Friedrich Schiller
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