Fantasie -- To Laura Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKFK LMNM FOFO PQNQ PRSR TUFU VWVW VXNX FYAY ZVVV A2AB2A VC2D2S FE2VE2 AF2AF2| Name my Laura name the whirl compelling | A |
| Bodies to unite in one blest whole | B |
| Name my Laura name the wondrous magic | C |
| By which soul rejoins its kindred soul | B |
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| See it teaches yonder roving planets | D |
| Round the sun to fly in endless race | E |
| And as children play around their mother | F |
| Checkered circles round the orb to trace | E |
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| Every rolling star by thirst tormented | G |
| Drinks with joy its bright and golden rain | H |
| Drinks refreshment from its fiery chalice | I |
| As the limbs are nourished by the brain | H |
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| 'Tis through Love that atom pairs with atom | J |
| In a harmony eternal sure | K |
| And 'tis Love that links the spheres together | F |
| Through her only systems can endure | K |
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| Were she but effaced from Nature's clockwork | L |
| Into dust would fly the mighty world | M |
| O'er thy systems thou wouldst weep great Newton | N |
| When with giant force to chaos hurled | M |
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| Blot the goddess from the spirit order | F |
| It would sink in death and ne'er arise | O |
| Were love absent spring would glad us never | F |
| Were love absent none their God would prize | O |
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| What is that which when my Laura kisses | P |
| Dyes my cheek with flames of purple hue | Q |
| Bids my bosom bound with swifter motion | N |
| Like a fever wild my veins runs through | Q |
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| Every nerve from out its barriers rises | P |
| O'er its banks the blood begins to flow | R |
| Body seeks to join itself to body | S |
| Spirits kindle in one blissful glow | R |
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| Powerful as in the dead creations | T |
| That eternal impulses obey | U |
| O'er the web Arachne like of Nature | F |
| Living Nature Love exerts her sway | U |
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| Laura see how joyousness embraces | V |
| E'en the overflow of sorrows wild | W |
| How e'en rigid desperation kindles | V |
| On the loving breast of Hope so mild | W |
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| Sisterly and blissful rapture softens | V |
| Gloomy Melancholy's fearful night | X |
| And deliver'd of its golden children | N |
| Lo the eye pours forth its radiance bright | X |
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| Does not awful Sympathy rule over | F |
| E'en the realms that Evil calls its own | Y |
| For 'tis Hell our crimes are ever wooing | A |
| While they bear a grudge 'gainst Heaven alone | Y |
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| Shame Repentance pair Eumenides like | Z |
| Weave round sin their fearful serpent coils | V |
| While around the eagle wings of Greatness | V |
| Treach'rous danger winds its dreaded toils | V |
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| Ruin oft with Pride is wont to trifle | A2 |
| Envy upon Fortune loves to cling | A |
| On her brother Death with arms extended | B2 |
| Lust his sister oft is wont to spring | A |
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| On the wings of Love the future hastens | V |
| In the arms of ages past to lie | C2 |
| And Saturnus as he onward speeds him | D2 |
| Long hath sought his bride Eternity | S |
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| Soon Saturnus will his bride discover | F |
| So the mighty oracle hath said | E2 |
| Blazing worlds will turn to marriage torches | V |
| When Eternity with Time shall wed | E2 |
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| Then a fairer far more beauteous morning | A |
| Laura on our love shall also shine | F2 |
| Long as their blest bridal night enduring | A |
| So rejoice thee Laura Laura mine | F2 |
Friedrich Schiller
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