Hero And Leander Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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See you the towers that gray and oldA
Frown through the sunlight's liquid goldA
Steep sternly fronting steepB
The Hellespont beneath them swellsC
And roaring cleaves the DardanellesC
The rock gates of the deepB
Hear you the sea whose stormy waveD
From Asia Europe clove in thunderE
That sea which rent a world cannotF
Rend love from love asunderE
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In Hero's in Leander's heartG
Thrills the sweet anguish of the dartG
Whose feather flies from loveH
All Hebe's bloom in Hero's cheekI
And his the hunter's steps that seekI
Delight the hills aboveH
Between their sires the rival feudJ
Forbids their plighted hearts to meetK
Love's fruits hang over danger's gulfL
By danger made more sweetK
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Alone on Sestos' rocky towerE
Where upward sent in stormy showerE
The whirling waters foamM
Alone the maiden sits and eyesC
The cliffs of fair Abydos riseC
Afar her lover's homeM
Oh safely thrown from strand to strandN
No bridge can love to love conveyO
No boatman shoots from yonder shoreP
Yet Love has found the wayO
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That love which could the labyrinth pierceC
Which nerves the weak and curbs the fierceC
And wings with wit the dullQ
That love which o'er the furrowed landN
Bowed tame beneath young Jason's handN
The fiery snorting bullR
Yes Styx itself that ninefold flowsC
Has love the fearless ventured o'erE
And back to daylight borne the brideS
From Pluto's dreary shoreP
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What marvel then that wind and waveD
Leander doth but burn to braveD
When love that goads him guidesC
Still when the day with fainter glimmerE
Wanes pale he leaps the daring swimmerE
Amid the darkening tidesC
With lusty arms he cleaves the wavesC
And strikes for that dear strand afarT
Where high from Hero's lonely towerE
Lone streams the beacon starT
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In vain his blood the wave may chillU
These tender arms can warm it stillU
And weary if the wayO
By many a sweet embrace aboveH
All earthly boons can liberal loveH
The lover's toil repayO
Until Aurora breaks the dreamV
And warns the loiterer to departG
Back to the ocean's icy bedW
Scared from that loving heartG
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So thirty suns have sped their flightX
Still in that theft of sweet delightX
Exult the happy pairY
Caress will never pall caressC
And joys that gods might envy blessC
The single bride night thereY
Ah never he has rapture knownZ
Who has not where the waves are drivenA2
Upon the fearful shores of hellB2
Plucked fruits that taste of heavenA2
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Now changing in their season areT
The morning and the Hesper starT
Nor see those happy eyesC
The leaves that withering droop and fallC2
Nor hear when from its northern hallC2
The neighboring winter sighsC
Or if they see the shortening daysC
But seem to them to close in kindnessC
For longer joys in lengthening nightsC
They thank the heaven in blindnessC
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It is the time when night and dayO
In equal scales contend for swayO
Lone on her rocky steepB
Lingers the girl with wistful eyesC
That watch the sun steeds down the skiesC
Careering towards the deepB
Lulled lay the smooth and silent seaC
A mirror in translucent calmD2
The breeze along that crystal realmE2
Unmurmuring died in balmD2
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In wanton swarms and blithe arrayO
The merry dolphins glide and playO
Amid the silver wavesC
In gray and dusky troops are seenF2
The hosts that serve the ocean queenF2
Upborne from coral cavesC
They only they have witnessed loveH
To rapture steal its secret wayO
And Hecate seals the only lipsC
That could the tale betrayO
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She marks in joy the lulled waterE
And Sestos thus thy tender daughterE
Soft flattering woos the seaC
Fair god and canst thou then betrayO
No falsehood dwells with them that sayO
That falsehood dwells with theeC
Ah faithless is the race of manG2
And harsh a father's heart can proveH2
But thee the gentle and the mildI2
The grief of love can moveH2
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Within these hated walls of stoneZ
Should I repining mourn aloneZ
And fade in ceaseless careY
But thou though o'er thy giant tideS
Nor bridge may span nor boat may glideS
Dost safe my lover bearY
And darksome is thy solemn deepB
And fearful is thy roaring waveD
But wave and deep are won by loveH
Thou smilest on the braveD
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Nor vainly sovereign of the seaC
Did Eros send his shafts to theeC
What time the rain of goldA
Bright Helle with her brother boreP
How stirred the waves she wandered o'erE
How stirred thy deeps of oldA
Swift by the maiden's charms subduedJ
Thou cam'st from out the gloomy wavesC
And in thy mighty arms she sankJ2
Into thy bridal cavesC
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A goddess with a god to keepB
In endless youth beneath the deepB
Her solemn ocean courtK2
And still she smooths thine angry tidesC
Tames thy wild heart and favoring guidesC
The sailor to the portK2
Beautiful Helle bright one hearL2
Thy lone adoring suppliant prayO
And guide O goddess guide my loveH
Along the wonted wayO
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Now twilight dims the waters' flowM2
And from the tower the beacon's glowM2
Waves flickering o'er the mainN2
Ah where athwart the dismal streamV
Shall shine the beacon's faithful beamV
The lover's eyes shall strainN2
Hark sounds moan threatening from afarT
From heaven the blessed stars are goneO2
More darkly swells the rising seaC
The tempest labors onP2
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Along the ocean's boundless plainsC
Lies night in torrents rush the rainsC
From the dark bosomed cloudQ2
Red lightning skirs the panting airY
And loosed from out their rocky lairY
Sweep all the storms abroadR2
Huge wave on huge wave tumbling o'erE
The yawning gulf is rent asunderE
And shows as through an opening pallS2
Grim earth the ocean underE
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Poor maiden bootless wail or vowT2
Have mercy Jove be gracious thouT2
Dread prayer was mine beforeP
What if the gods have heard and heC
Lone victim of the stormy seaC
Now struggles to the shoreP
There's not a sea bird on the waveD
Their hurrying wings the shelter seekI
The stoutest ship the storms have provedU2
Takes refuge in the creekI
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Ah still that heart which oft has bravedV2
The danger where the daring savedV2
Love lureth o'er the seaC
For many a vow at parting mornW2
That naught but death should bar returnX2
Breathed those dear lips to meC
And whirled around the while I weepB
Amid the storm that rides the waveD
The giant gulf is grasping downY2
The rash one to the graveD
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False Pontus and the calm I hailedZ2
The awaiting murder darkly veiledZ2
The lulled pellucid flowM2
The smiles in which thou wert arrayedA3
Were but the snares that love betrayedA3
To thy false realm belowM2
Now in the midway of the mainN2
Return relentlessly forbiddenA2
Thou loosenest on the path beyondB3
The horrors thou hadst hiddenA2
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Loud and more loud the tempest ravesC
In thunder break the mountain wavesC
White foaming on the rockC3
No ship that ever swept the deepB
Its ribs of gnarled oak could keepB
Unshattered by the shockC3
Dies in the blast the guiding torchD3
To light the struggler to the strandN
'Tis death to battle with the waveD
And death no less to landN
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On Venus daughter of the seasC
She calls the tempest to appeaseC
To each wild shrieking windE3
Along the ocean desert borneW2
She vows a steer with golden hornW2
Vain vow relentless windE3
On every goddess of the deepB
On all the gods in heaven that beC
She calls to soothe in calm awhileF3
The tempest laden seaC
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Hearken the anguish of my criesC
From thy green halls arise ariseC
Leucothoe the divineG3
Who in the barren main afarT
Oft on the storm beat marinerE
Dost gently saving shineG3
Oh reach to him thy mystic veilH3
To which the drowning clasp may clingI3
And safely from that roaring graveD
To shore my lover bringI3
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And now the savage winds are hushingI3
And o'er the arched horizon blushingI3
Day's chariot gleams on highJ3
Back to their wonted channels rolledA
In crystal calm the waves beholdA
One smile on sea anG2

Friedrich Schiller



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