Hymn To Joy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGHHG IJIJKLKL FIMNI CJCJJJJJ JOHHO OPOPCQCQ JJROJ CJCJJSJS JOHHO CTCUCVCV JCHHC JWJWIXIX JCYYC OVOVKJKJ JCZZC CJCJOMOM JOA2A2OJoy thou goddess fair immortal | A |
Offspring of Elysium | B |
Mad with rapture to the portal | A |
Of thy holy fame we come | B |
Fashion's laws indeed may sever | C |
But thy magic joins again | D |
All mankind are brethren ever | C |
'Neath thy mild and gentle reign | E |
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CHORUS | F |
Welcome all ye myriad creatures | G |
Brethren take the kiss of love | H |
Yes the starry realms above | H |
Hide a Father's smiling features | G |
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He that noble prize possessing | I |
He that boasts a friend that's true | J |
He whom woman's love is blessing | I |
Let him join the chorus too | J |
Aye and he who but one spirit | K |
On this earth can call his own | L |
He who no such bliss can merit | K |
Let him mourn his fate alone | L |
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CHORUS | F |
All who Nature's tribes are swelling | I |
Homage pay to sympathy | M |
For she guides us up on high | N |
Where the unknown has his dwelling | I |
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From the breasts of kindly Nature | C |
All of joy imbibe the dew | J |
Good and bad alike each creature | C |
Would her roseate path pursue | J |
'Tis through her the wine cup maddens | J |
Love and friends to man she gives | J |
Bliss the meanest reptile gladdens | J |
Near God's throne the cherub lives | J |
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CHORUS | J |
Bow before him all creation | O |
Mortals own the God of love | H |
Seek him high the stars above | H |
Yonder is his habitation | O |
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Joy in Nature's wide dominion | O |
Mightiest cause of all is found | P |
And 'tis joy that moves the pinion | O |
When the wheel of time goes round | P |
From the bud she lures the flower | C |
Suns from out their orbs of light | Q |
Distant spheres obey her power | C |
Far beyond all mortal sight | Q |
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CHORUS | J |
As through heaven's expanse so glorious | J |
In their orbits suns roll on | R |
Brethren thus your proud race run | O |
Glad as warriors all victorious | J |
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Joy from truth's own glass of fire | C |
Sweetly on the searcher smiles | J |
Lest on virtue's steeps he tire | C |
Joy the tedious path beguiles | J |
High on faith's bright hill before us | J |
See her banner proudly wave | S |
Joy too swells the angels' chorus | J |
Bursts the bondage of the grave | S |
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CHORUS | J |
Mortals meekly wait for heaven | O |
Suffer on in patient love | H |
In the starry realms above | H |
Bright rewards by God are given | O |
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To the Gods we ne'er can render | C |
Praise for every good they grant | T |
Let us with devotion tender | C |
Minister to grief and want | U |
Quenched be hate and wrath forever | C |
Pardoned be our mortal foe | V |
May our tears upbraid him never | C |
No repentance bring him low | V |
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CHORUS | J |
Sense of wrongs forget to treasure | C |
Brethren live in perfect love | H |
In the starry realms above | H |
God will mete as we may measure | C |
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Joy within the goblet flushes | J |
For the golden nectar wine | W |
Every fierce emotion hushes | J |
Fills the breast with fire divine | W |
Brethren thus in rapture meeting | I |
Send ye round the brimming cup | X |
Yonder kindly spirit greeting | I |
While the foam to heaven mounts up | X |
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CHORUS | J |
He whom seraphs worship ever | C |
Whom the stars praise as they roll | Y |
Yes to him now drain the bowl | Y |
Mortal eye can see him never | C |
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Courage ne'er by sorrow broken | O |
Aid where tears of virtue flow | V |
Faith to keep each promise spoken | O |
Truth alike to friend and foe | V |
'Neath kings' frowns a manly spirit | K |
Brethren noble is the prize | J |
Honor due to every merit | K |
Death to all the brood of lies | J |
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CHORUS | J |
Draw the sacred circle closer | C |
By this bright wine plight your troth | Z |
To be faithful to your oath | Z |
Swear it by the Star Disposer | C |
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Safety from the tyrant's power | C |
Mercy e'en to traitors base | J |
Hope in death's last solemn hour | C |
Pardon when before His face | J |
Lo the dead shall rise to heaven | O |
Brethren hail the blest decree | M |
Every sin shall be forgiven | O |
Hell forever cease to be | M |
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CHORUS | J |
When the golden bowl is broken | O |
Gentle sleep within the tomb | A2 |
Brethren may a gracious doom | A2 |
By the Judge of man be spoken | O |
Friedrich Schiller
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