Reproach To Laura Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKJJK LLMNNM BBOHHO IIPQQP RSJJJJ TTJUUJ VVKWXK TTYZZZ A2A2B2ZZB2| Maiden stay oh whither wouldst thou go | A |
| Do I still or pride or grandeur show | A |
| Maiden was it right | B |
| Thou the giant mad'st a dwarf once more | C |
| Scattered'st far the mountains that of yore | C |
| Climbed to glory's sunny height | B |
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| Thou hast doomed my flowerets to decay | D |
| All the phantoms bright hast blown away | D |
| Whose sweet follies formed the hero's trust | E |
| All my plans that proudly raised their head | F |
| Thou dost with gentle zephyr tread | F |
| Prostrate laughing in the dust | E |
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| To the godhead eagle like I flew | G |
| Smiling fortune's juggling wheel to view | G |
| Careless wheresoe'er her ball might fly | H |
| Hovering far beyond Cocytus' wave | I |
| Death and life receiving like a slave | I |
| Life and death from out one beaming eye | H |
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| Like the victors who with thunder lance | J |
| On the iron plain of glory dance | J |
| Starting from their mistress' breast | K |
| From Aurora's rosy bed upsprings | J |
| God's bright sun to roam o'er towns of kings | J |
| And to make the young world blest | K |
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| Toward the hero doth this heart still strain | L |
| Drink I eagle still the fiery rain | L |
| Of thine eye that burneth to destroy | M |
| In the glances that destructive gleam | N |
| Laura's love I see with sweetness beam | N |
| Weep to see it like a boy | M |
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| My repose like yonder image bright | B |
| Dancing in the waters cloudless light | B |
| Maiden hath been slain by thee | O |
| On the dizzy height now totter I | H |
| Laura if from me my Laura fly | H |
| Oh the thought to madness hurries me | O |
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| Gladly shout the revellers as they quaff | I |
| Raptures in the leaf crowned goblet laugh | I |
| Jests within the golden wine have birth | P |
| Since the maiden hath enslaved my mind | Q |
| I have left each youthful sport behind | Q |
| Friendless roam I o'er the earth | P |
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| Hear I still bright glory's thunder tone | R |
| Doth the laurel still allure me on | S |
| Doth thy lyre Apollo Cynthius | J |
| In my breast no echoes now arise | J |
| Every shamefaced muse in sorrow flies | J |
| And thou too Apollo Cynthius | J |
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| Shall I still be as a woman tame | T |
| Do my pulses at my country's name | T |
| Proudly burst their prison thralls | J |
| Would I boast the eagle's soaring wing | U |
| Do I long with Roman blood to spring | U |
| When my Hermann calls | J |
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| Oh how sweet the eye's wild gaze divine | V |
| Sweet to quaff the incense at that shrine | V |
| Prouder bolder swells the breast | K |
| That which once set every sense on fire | W |
| That which once could every nerve inspire | X |
| Scarce a half smile now hath power to wrest | K |
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| That Orion might receive my fame | T |
| On the time flood's heaving waves my name | T |
| Rocked in glory in the mighty tide | Y |
| So that Kronos' dreaded scythe was shivered | Z |
| When against my monument is quivered | Z |
| Towering toward the firmament in pride | Z |
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| Smil'st thou No to me naught's perished now | A2 |
| Star and laurel I'll to fools allow | A2 |
| To the dead their marble cell | B2 |
| Love hath granted all as my reward | Z |
| High o'er man 'twere easy to have soared | Z |
| So I love him well | B2 |
Friedrich Schiller
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