Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBCDEFEGHGH IJIJKLKLMNMN OOOHPOOOGOOG QRQRSHSHOOOO OTOUVHQHGHGH WOXOHVHVOGOG GOGOQQQQOOOO QYQYZVZQOA2OA2 PHPHQQQQOPOPA | |
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Mournful groans as when a tempest lowers | B |
Echo from the dreary house of woe | C |
Death notes rise from yonder minster's towers | B |
Bearing out a youth they slowly go | C |
Yes a youth unripe yet for the bier | D |
Gathered in the spring time of his days | E |
Thrilling yet with pulses strong and clear | F |
With the flame that in his bright eye plays | E |
Yes a son the idol of his mother | G |
Oh her mournful sigh shows that too well | H |
Yes my bosom friend alas my brother | G |
Up each man the sad procession swell | H |
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Do ye boast ye pines so gray and old | I |
Storms to brave with thunderbolts to sport | J |
And ye hills that ye the heavens uphold | I |
And ye heavens that ye the suns support | J |
Boasts the graybeard who on haughty deeds | K |
As on billows seeks perfection's height | L |
Boasts the hero whom his prowess leads | K |
Up to future glory's temple bright | L |
If the gnawing worms the floweret blast | M |
Who can madly think he'll ne'er decay | N |
Who above below can hope to last | M |
If the young man's life thus fleets away | N |
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Joyously his days of youth so glad | O |
Danced along in rosy garb beclad | O |
And the world the world was then so sweet | O |
And how kindly how enchantingly | H |
Smiled the future with what golden eye | P |
Did life's paradise his moments greet | O |
While the tear his mother's eye escaped | O |
Under him the realm of shadows gaped | O |
And the fates his thread began to sever | G |
Earth and Heaven then vanished from his sight | O |
From the grave thought shrank he in affright | O |
Sweet the world is to the dying ever | G |
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Dumb and deaf 'tis in that narrow place | Q |
Deep the slumbers of the buried one | R |
Brother Ah in ever slackening race | Q |
All thy hopes their circuit cease to run | R |
Sunbeams oft thy native hill still lave | S |
But their glow thou never more canst feel | H |
O'er its flowers the zephyr's pinions wave | S |
O'er thine ear its murmur ne'er can steal | H |
Love will never tinge thine eye with gold | O |
Never wilt thou embrace thy blooming bride | O |
Not e'en though our tears in torrents rolled | O |
Death must now thine eye forever hide | O |
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Yet 'tis well for precious is the rest | O |
In that narrow house the sleep is calm | T |
There with rapture sorrow leaves the breast | O |
Man's afflictions there no longer harm | U |
Slander now may wildly rave o'er thee | V |
And temptation vomit poison fell | H |
O'er the wrangle on the Pharisee | Q |
Murderous bigots banish thee to hell | H |
Rogues beneath apostle masks may leer | G |
And the bastard child of justice play | H |
As it were with dice with mankind here | G |
And so on until the judgment day | H |
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O'er thee fortune still may juggle on | W |
For her minions blindly look around | O |
Man now totter on his staggering throne | X |
And in dreary puddles now be found | O |
Blest art thou within thy narrow cell | H |
To this stir of tragi comedy | V |
To these fortune waves that madly swell | H |
To this vain and childish lottery | V |
To this busy crowd effecting naught | O |
To this rest with labor teeming o'er | G |
Brother to this heaven with devils fraught | O |
Now thine eyes have closed forevermore | G |
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Fare thee well oh thou to memory dear | G |
By our blessings lulled to slumbers sweet | O |
Sleep on calmly in thy prison drear | G |
Sleep on calmly till again we meet | O |
Till the loud Almighty trumpet sounds | Q |
Echoing through these corpse encumbered hills | Q |
Till God's storm wind bursting through the bounds | Q |
Placed by death with life those corpses fills | Q |
Till impregnate with Jehovah's blast | O |
Graves bring forth and at His menace dread | O |
In the smoke of planets melting fast | O |
Once again the tombs give up their dead | O |
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Not in worlds as dreamed of by the wise | Q |
Not in heavens as sung in poet's song | Y |
Not in e'en the people's paradise | Q |
Yet we shall o'ertake thee and ere long | Y |
Is that true which cheered the pilgrim's gloom | Z |
Is it true that thoughts can yonder be | V |
True that virtue guides us o'er the tomb | Z |
That 'tis more than empty phantasy | Q |
All these riddles are to thee unveiled | O |
Truth thy soul ecstatic now drinks up | A2 |
Truth in radiance thousandfold exhaled | O |
From the mighty Father's blissful cup | A2 |
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Dark and silent bearers draw then nigh | P |
To the slayer serve the feast the while | H |
Cease ye mourners cease your wailing cry | P |
Dust on dust upon the body pile | H |
Where's the man who God to tempt presumes | Q |
Where the eye that through the gulf can see | Q |
Holy holy holy art thou God of tombs | Q |
We with awful trembling worship Thee | Q |
Dust may back to native dust be ground | O |
From its crumbling house the spirit fly | P |
And the storm its ashes strew around | O |
But its love its love shall never die | P |
Friedrich Schiller
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