Count Eberhard, The Groaner Of Wurtembert. A War Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH IJCCJ KLKKL MNMMN FAFFA OPOOP QRQQR STSST URUUR FVTFV IWIIW XYXZY ABAAB| Now hearken ye who take delight | A |
| In boasting of your worth | B |
| To many a man to many a knight | A |
| Beloved in peace and brave in fight | A |
| The Swabian land gives birth | B |
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| Of Charles and Edward Louis Guy | C |
| And Frederick ye may boast | D |
| Charles Edward Louis Frederick Guy | C |
| None with Sir Eberhard can vie | C |
| Himself a mighty host | D |
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| And then young Ulerick his son | E |
| Ha how he loved the fray | F |
| Young Ulerick the Count's bold son | E |
| When once the battle had begun | E |
| No foot's breadth e'er gave way | F |
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| The Reutlingers with gnashing teeth | G |
| Saw our bright ranks revealed | H |
| And panting for the victor's wreath | G |
| They drew the sword from out the sheath | G |
| And sought the battle field | H |
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| He charged the foe but fruitlessly | I |
| Then mail clad homeward sped | J |
| Stern anger filled his father's eye | C |
| And made the youthful warrior fly | C |
| And tears of anguish shed | J |
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| Now rascals quake This grieved him sore | K |
| And rankled in his brain | L |
| And by his father's beard he swore | K |
| With many a craven townsman's gore | K |
| To wash out this foul stain | L |
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| Ere long the feud raged fierce and loud | M |
| Then hastened steed and man | N |
| To Doeffingen in thronging crowd | M |
| While joy inspired the youngster proud | M |
| And soon the strife began | N |
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| Our army's signal word that day | F |
| Was the disastrous fight | A |
| It spurred us on like lightning's ray | F |
| And plunged us deep in bloody fray | F |
| And in the spears' black night | A |
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| The youthful Count his ponderous mace | O |
| With lion's rage swung round | P |
| Destruction stalked before his face | O |
| While groans and howlings filled the place | O |
| And hundreds bit the ground | P |
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| Woe Woe A heavy sabre stroke | Q |
| Upon his neck descended | R |
| The sight each warrior's pity woke | Q |
| In vain In vain No word he spoke | Q |
| His course on earth was ended | R |
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| Loud wept both friend and foeman then | S |
| Checked was the victor's glow | T |
| The count cheered thus his knights again | S |
| My son is like all other men | S |
| March children 'gainst the foe | T |
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| With greater fury whizzed each lance | U |
| Revenge inflamed the blood | R |
| O'er corpses moved the fearful dance | U |
| The townsmen fled in random chance | U |
| O'er mountain vale and flood | R |
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| Then back to camp with trumpet's bray | F |
| We hied in joyful haste | V |
| And wife and child with roundelay | T |
| With clanging cup and waltzes gay | F |
| Our glorious triumph graced | V |
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| And our old Count what now does he | I |
| His son lies dead before him | W |
| Within his tent all woefully | I |
| He sits alone in agony | I |
| And drops one hot tear o'er him | W |
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| And so with true affection warm | X |
| The Count our lord we love | Y |
| Himself a mighty hero swarm | X |
| The thunders rest within his arm | Z |
| He shines like star above | Y |
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| Farewell then ye who take delight | A |
| In boasting of your worth | B |
| To many a man to many a knight | A |
| Beloved in peace and brave in fight | A |
| The Swabian land gives birth | B |
Friedrich Schiller
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