Hero And Leander. [34] A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEFE GGHIIHJKLK EEMCCMNOPO CCQNNRCESP DDCEECCTET UUOHHOVGWG XXYCCYZA2B2A2 TTCC2C2CCCCC OOBCCBCD2E2D2 OOCF2F2CHOCO EECOOCG2H2I2H2 ZZYSSYBDHD CCAPEAJCJ2C BBK2CCK2L2OHO M2M2N2VVN2TO2CP2 CCQ2YYR2EES2E T2T2PCCPDIU2I V2V2CW2X2CBDY2D Z2Z2M2A3A3M2N2A2B3A2 CCC3BBC3D3NDN CCE3W2W2E3BCF3C CCG3TEG3H3I3DI3 I3I3J3AAJ3SNK3N UUYCCYBA2UA2 L3L3A2CCA2M3A2N3A2 YYDO3O3DI3CCCSee you the towers that gray and old | A |
Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold | A |
Steep sternly fronting steep | B |
The Hellespont beneath them swells | C |
And roaring cleaves the Dardanelles | C |
The rock gates of the deep | B |
Hear you the sea whose stormy wave | D |
From Asia Europe clove in thunder | E |
That sea which rent a world cannot | F |
Rend love from love asunder | E |
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In Hero's in Leander's heart | G |
Thrills the sweet anguish of the dart | G |
Whose feather flies from love | H |
All Hebe's bloom in Hero's cheek | I |
And his the hunter's steps that seek | I |
Delight the hills above | H |
Between their sires the rival feud | J |
Forbids their plighted hearts to meet | K |
Love's fruits hang over danger's gulf | L |
By danger made more sweet | K |
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Alone on Sestos' rocky tower | E |
Where upward sent in stormy shower | E |
The whirling waters foam | M |
Alone the maiden sits and eyes | C |
The cliffs of fair Abydos rise | C |
Afar her lover's home | M |
Oh safely thrown from strand to strand | N |
No bridge can love to love convey | O |
No boatman shoots from yonder shore | P |
Yet Love has found the way | O |
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That love which could the labyrinth pierce | C |
Which nerves the weak and curbs the fierce | C |
And wings with wit the dull | Q |
That love which o'er the furrowed land | N |
Bowed tame beneath young Jason's hand | N |
The fiery snorting bull | R |
Yes Styx itself that ninefold flows | C |
Has love the fearless ventured o'er | E |
And back to daylight borne the bride | S |
From Pluto's dreary shore | P |
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What marvel then that wind and wave | D |
Leander doth but burn to brave | D |
When love that goads him guides | C |
Still when the day with fainter glimmer | E |
Wanes pale he leaps the daring swimmer | E |
Amid the darkening tides | C |
With lusty arms he cleaves the waves | C |
And strikes for that dear strand afar | T |
Where high from Hero's lonely tower | E |
Lone streams the beacon star | T |
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In vain his blood the wave may chill | U |
These tender arms can warm it still | U |
And weary if the way | O |
By many a sweet embrace above | H |
All earthly boons can liberal love | H |
The lover's toil repay | O |
Until Aurora breaks the dream | V |
And warns the loiterer to depart | G |
Back to the ocean's icy bed | W |
Scared from that loving heart | G |
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So thirty suns have sped their flight | X |
Still in that theft of sweet delight | X |
Exult the happy pair | Y |
Caress will never pall caress | C |
And joys that gods might envy bless | C |
The single bride night there | Y |
Ah never he has rapture known | Z |
Who has not where the waves are driven | A2 |
Upon the fearful shores of hell | B2 |
Plucked fruits that taste of heaven | A2 |
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Now changing in their season are | T |
The morning and the Hesper star | T |
Nor see those happy eyes | C |
The leaves that withering droop and fall | C2 |
Nor hear when from its northern hall | C2 |
The neighboring winter sighs | C |
Or if they see the shortening days | C |
But seem to them to close in kindness | C |
For longer joys in lengthening nights | C |
They thank the heaven in blindness | C |
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It is the time when night and day | O |
In equal scales contend for sway | O |
Lone on her rocky steep | B |
Lingers the girl with wistful eyes | C |
That watch the sun steeds down the skies | C |
Careering towards the deep | B |
Lulled lay the smooth and silent sea | C |
A mirror in translucent calm | D2 |
The breeze along that crystal realm | E2 |
Unmurmuring died in balm | D2 |
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In wanton swarms and blithe array | O |
The merry dolphins glide and play | O |
Amid the silver waves | C |
In gray and dusky troops are seen | F2 |
The hosts that serve the ocean queen | F2 |
Upborne from coral caves | C |
They only they have witnessed love | H |
To rapture steal its secret way | O |
And Hecate seals the only lips | C |
That could the tale betray | O |
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She marks in joy the lulled water | E |
And Sestos thus thy tender daughter | E |
Soft flattering woos the sea | C |
Fair god and canst thou then betray | O |
No falsehood dwells with them that say | O |
That falsehood dwells with thee | C |
Ah faithless is the race of man | G2 |
And harsh a father's heart can prove | H2 |
But thee the gentle and the mild | I2 |
The grief of love can move | H2 |
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Within these hated walls of stone | Z |
Should I repining mourn alone | Z |
And fade in ceaseless care | Y |
But thou though o'er thy giant tide | S |
Nor bridge may span nor boat may glide | S |
Dost safe my lover bear | Y |
And darksome is thy solemn deep | B |
And fearful is thy roaring wave | D |
But wave and deep are won by love | H |
Thou smilest on the brave | D |
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Nor vainly sovereign of the sea | C |
Did Eros send his shafts to thee | C |
What time the rain of gold | A |
Bright Helle with her brother bore | P |
How stirred the waves she wandered o'er | E |
How stirred thy deeps of old | A |
Swift by the maiden's charms subdued | J |
Thou cam'st from out the gloomy waves | C |
And in thy mighty arms she sank | J2 |
Into thy bridal caves | C |
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A goddess with a god to keep | B |
In endless youth beneath the deep | B |
Her solemn ocean court | K2 |
And still she smooths thine angry tides | C |
Tames thy wild heart and favoring guides | C |
The sailor to the port | K2 |
Beautiful Helle bright one hear | L2 |
Thy lone adoring suppliant pray | O |
And guide O goddess guide my love | H |
Along the wonted way | O |
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Now twilight dims the waters' flow | M2 |
And from the tower the beacon's glow | M2 |
Waves flickering o'er the main | N2 |
Ah where athwart the dismal stream | V |
Shall shine the beacon's faithful beam | V |
The lover's eyes shall strain | N2 |
Hark sounds moan threatening from afar | T |
From heaven the blessed stars are gone | O2 |
More darkly swells the rising sea | C |
The tempest labors on | P2 |
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Along the ocean's boundless plains | C |
Lies night in torrents rush the rains | C |
From the dark bosomed cloud | Q2 |
Red lightning skirs the panting air | Y |
And loosed from out their rocky lair | Y |
Sweep all the storms abroad | R2 |
Huge wave on huge wave tumbling o'er | E |
The yawning gulf is rent asunder | E |
And shows as through an opening pall | S2 |
Grim earth the ocean under | E |
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Poor maiden bootless wail or vow | T2 |
Have mercy Jove be gracious thou | T2 |
Dread prayer was mine before | P |
What if the gods have heard and he | C |
Lone victim of the stormy sea | C |
Now struggles to the shore | P |
There's not a sea bird on the wave | D |
Their hurrying wings the shelter seek | I |
The stoutest ship the storms have proved | U2 |
Takes refuge in the creek | I |
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Ah still that heart which oft has braved | V2 |
The danger where the daring saved | V2 |
Love lureth o'er the sea | C |
For many a vow at parting morn | W2 |
That naught but death should bar return | X2 |
Breathed those dear lips to me | C |
And whirled around the while I weep | B |
Amid the storm that rides the wave | D |
The giant gulf is grasping down | Y2 |
The rash one to the grave | D |
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False Pontus and the calm I hailed | Z2 |
The awaiting murder darkly veiled | Z2 |
The lulled pellucid flow | M2 |
The smiles in which thou wert arrayed | A3 |
Were but the snares that love betrayed | A3 |
To thy false realm below | M2 |
Now in the midway of the main | N2 |
Return relentlessly forbidden | A2 |
Thou loosenest on the path beyond | B3 |
The horrors thou hadst hidden | A2 |
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Loud and more loud the tempest raves | C |
In thunder break the mountain waves | C |
White foaming on the rock | C3 |
No ship that ever swept the deep | B |
Its ribs of gnarled oak could keep | B |
Unshattered by the shock | C3 |
Dies in the blast the guiding torch | D3 |
To light the struggler to the strand | N |
'Tis death to battle with the wave | D |
And death no less to land | N |
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On Venus daughter of the seas | C |
She calls the tempest to appease | C |
To each wild shrieking wind | E3 |
Along the ocean desert borne | W2 |
She vows a steer with golden horn | W2 |
Vain vow relentless wind | E3 |
On every goddess of the deep | B |
On all the gods in heaven that be | C |
She calls to soothe in calm awhile | F3 |
The tempest laden sea | C |
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Hearken the anguish of my cries | C |
From thy green halls arise arise | C |
Leucothoe the divine | G3 |
Who in the barren main afar | T |
Oft on the storm beat mariner | E |
Dost gently saving shine | G3 |
Oh reach to him thy mystic veil | H3 |
To which the drowning clasp may cling | I3 |
And safely from that roaring grave | D |
To shore my lover bring | I3 |
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And now the savage winds are hushing | I3 |
And o'er the arched horizon blushing | I3 |
Day's chariot gleams on high | J3 |
Back to their wonted channels rolled | A |
In crystal calm the waves behold | A |
One smile on sea and sky | J3 |
All softly breaks the rippling tide | S |
Low murmuring on the rocky land | N |
And playful wavelets gently float | K3 |
A corpse upon the strand | N |
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'Tis he who even in death would still | U |
Not fail the sweet vow to fulfil | U |
She looks sees knows him there | Y |
From her pale lips no sorrow speaks | C |
No tears glide down her hueless cheeks | C |
Cold numbed in her despair | Y |
She looked along the silent deep | B |
She looked upon the brightening heaven | A2 |
Till to the marble face the soul | U |
Its light sublime had given | A2 |
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Ye solemn powers men shrink to name | L3 |
Your might is here your rights ye claim | L3 |
Yet think not I repine | A2 |
Soon closed my course yet I can bless | C |
The life that brought me happiness | C |
The fairest lot was mine | A2 |
Living have I thy temple served | M3 |
Thy consecrated priestess been | A2 |
My last glad offering now receive | N3 |
Venus thou mightiest queen | A2 |
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Flashed the white robe along the air | Y |
And from the tower that beetled there | Y |
She sprang into the wave | D |
Roused from his throne beneath the waste | O3 |
Those holy forms the god embraced | O3 |
A god himself their grave | D |
Pleased with his prey he glides along | I3 |
More blithe the murmured music seems | C |
A gush from unexhausted urns | C |
His everlasting streams | C |
Friedrich Schiller
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