Naenia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEGCHEICC| Even the beauteous must die This vanquishes men and immortals | A |
| But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of steel | B |
| Once and once only could love prevail on the ruler of shadows | C |
| And on the threshold e'en then sternly his gift he recalled | D |
| Venus could never heal the wounds of the beauteous stripling | E |
| That the terrible boar made in his delicate skin | F |
| Nor could his mother immortal preserve the hero so godlike | E |
| When at the west gate of Troy falling his fate he fulfilled | G |
| But she arose from the ocean with all the daughters of Nereus | C |
| And o'er her glorified son raised the loud accents of woe | H |
| See where all the gods and goddesses yonder are weeping | E |
| That the beauteous must fade and that the perfect must die | I |
| Even a woe song to be in the mouth of the loved ones is glorious | C |
| For what is vulgar descends mutely to Orcus' dark shades | C |
Friedrich Schiller
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