Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man. [5] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFG HIHIJKJKLMLM NNNGONNNFNNF PQPQRGRGNNNN NSNTUGPGFGFG VNWNGUGUNFNF FNFNPPPPNNNN PXPXYUYPNZNZ OGOGPPPPNONOMournful groans as when a tempest lowers | A |
Echo from the dreary house of woe | B |
Death notes rise from yonder minster's towers | A |
Bearing out a youth they slowly go | B |
Yes a youth unripe yet for the bier | C |
Gathered in the spring time of his days | D |
Thrilling yet with pulses strong and clear | E |
With the flame that in his bright eye plays | D |
Yes a son the idol of his mother | F |
Oh her mournful sigh shows that too well | G |
Yes my bosom friend alas my brother | F |
Up each man the sad procession swell | G |
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Do ye boast ye pines so gray and old | H |
Storms to brave with thunderbolts to sport | I |
And ye hills that ye the heavens uphold | H |
And ye heavens that ye the suns support | I |
Boasts the graybeard who on haughty deeds | J |
As on billows seeks perfection's height | K |
Boasts the hero whom his prowess leads | J |
Up to future glory's temple bright | K |
If the gnawing worms the floweret blast | L |
Who can madly think he'll ne'er decay | M |
Who above below can hope to last | L |
If the young man's life thus fleets away | M |
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Joyously his days of youth so glad | N |
Danced along in rosy garb beclad | N |
And the world the world was then so sweet | N |
And how kindly how enchantingly | G |
Smiled the future with what golden eye | O |
Did life's paradise his moments greet | N |
While the tear his mother's eye escaped | N |
Under him the realm of shadows gaped | N |
And the fates his thread began to sever | F |
Earth and Heaven then vanished from his sight | N |
From the grave thought shrank he in affright | N |
Sweet the world is to the dying ever | F |
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Dumb and deaf 'tis in that narrow place | P |
Deep the slumbers of the buried one | Q |
Brother Ah in ever slackening race | P |
All thy hopes their circuit cease to run | Q |
Sunbeams oft thy native hill still lave | R |
But their glow thou never more canst feel | G |
O'er its flowers the zephyr's pinions wave | R |
O'er thine ear its murmur ne'er can steal | G |
Love will never tinge thine eye with gold | N |
Never wilt thou embrace thy blooming bride | N |
Not e'en though our tears in torrents rolled | N |
Death must now thine eye forever hide | N |
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Yet 'tis well for precious is the rest | N |
In that narrow house the sleep is calm | S |
There with rapture sorrow leaves the breast | N |
Man's afflictions there no longer harm | T |
Slander now may wildly rave o'er thee | U |
And temptation vomit poison fell | G |
O'er the wrangle on the Pharisee | P |
Murderous bigots banish thee to hell | G |
Rogues beneath apostle masks may leer | F |
And the bastard child of justice play | G |
As it were with dice with mankind here | F |
And so on until the judgment day | G |
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O'er thee fortune still may juggle on | V |
For her minions blindly look around | N |
Man now totter on his staggering throne | W |
And in dreary puddles now be found | N |
Blest art thou within thy narrow cell | G |
To this stir of tragi comedy | U |
To these fortune waves that madly swell | G |
To this vain and childish lottery | U |
To this busy crowd effecting naught | N |
To this rest with labor teeming o'er | F |
Brother to this heaven with devils fraught | N |
Now thine eyes have closed forevermore | F |
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Fare thee well oh thou to memory dear | F |
By our blessings lulled to slumbers sweet | N |
Sleep on calmly in thy prison drear | F |
Sleep on calmly till again we meet | N |
Till the loud Almighty trumpet sounds | P |
Echoing through these corpse encumbered hills | P |
Till God's storm wind bursting through the bounds | P |
Placed by death with life those corpses fills | P |
Till impregnate with Jehovah's blast | N |
Graves bring forth and at His menace dread | N |
In the smoke of planets melting fast | N |
Once again the tombs give up their dead | N |
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Not in worlds as dreamed of by the wise | P |
Not in heavens as sung in poet's song | X |
Not in e'en the people's paradise | P |
Yet we shall o'ertake thee and ere long | X |
Is that true which cheered the pilgrim's gloom | Y |
Is it true that thoughts can yonder be | U |
True that virtue guides us o'er the tomb | Y |
That 'tis more than empty phantasy | P |
All these riddles are to thee unveiled | N |
Truth thy soul ecstatic now drinks up | Z |
Truth in radiance thousandfold exhaled | N |
From the mighty Father's blissful cup | Z |
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Dark and silent bearers draw then nigh | O |
To the slayer serve the feast the while | G |
Cease ye mourners cease your wailing cry | O |
Dust on dust upon the body pile | G |
Where's the man who God to tempt presumes | P |
Where the eye that through the gulf can see | P |
Holy holy holy art thou God of tombs | P |
We with awful trembling worship Thee | P |
Dust may back to native dust be ground | N |
From its crumbling house the spirit fly | O |
And the storm its ashes strew around | N |
But its love its love shall never die | O |
Friedrich Schiller
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