Hector And Andromache Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDAAD EAAFGGF BHHIJJI EKKLMJL| This and the following poem are with some alterations introduced in the Play of The Robbers | A |
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| ANDROMACHE | B |
| Will Hector leave me for the fatal plain | C |
| Where fierce with vengeance for Patroclus slain | C |
| Stalks Peleus' ruthless son | D |
| Who when thou glid'st amid the dark abodes | A |
| To hurl the spear and to revere the gods | A |
| Shall teach thine orphan one | D |
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| HECTOR | E |
| Woman and wife beloved cease thy tears | A |
| My soul is nerved the war clang in my ears | A |
| Be mine in life to stand | F |
| Troy's bulwark fighting for our hearths to go | G |
| In death exulting to the streams below | G |
| Slain for my fatherland | F |
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| ANDROMACHE | B |
| No more I hear thy martial footsteps fall | H |
| Thine arms shall hang dull trophies on the wall | H |
| Fallen the stem of Troy | I |
| Thou goest where slow Cocytus wanders where | J |
| Love sinks in Lethe and the sunless air | J |
| Is dark to light and joy | I |
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| HECTOR | E |
| Longing and thought yes all I feel and think | K |
| May in the silent sloth of Lethe sink | K |
| But my love not | L |
| Hark the wild swarm is at the walls I hear | M |
| Gird on my sword Beloved one dry the tear | J |
| Lethe for love is not | L |
Friedrich Schiller
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