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 goA
Do I still or pride or grandeur showA
Maiden was it rightB
Thou the giant mad'st a dwarf once moreC
Scattered'st far the mountains that of yoreC
Climbed to glory's sunny heightB
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Thou hast doomed my flowerets to decayD
All the phantoms bright hast blown awayD
Whose sweet follies formed the hero's trustE
All my plans that proudly raised their headF
Thou dost with gentle zephyr treadF
Prostrate laughing in the dustE
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To the godhead eagle like I flewG
Smiling fortune's juggling wheel to viewG
Careless wheresoe'er her ball might flyH
Hovering far beyond Cocytus' waveI
Death and life receiving like a slaveI
Life and death from out one beaming eyeH
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Like the victors who with thunder lanceJ
On the iron plain of glory danceJ
Starting from their mistress' breastK
From Aurora's rosy bed upspringsJ
God's bright sun to roam o'er towns of kingsJ
And to make the young world blestK
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Toward the hero doth this heart still strainL
Drink I eagle still the fiery rainL
Of thine eye that burneth to destroyM
In the glances that destructive gleamN
Laura's love I see with sweetness beamN
Weep to see it like a boyM
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My repose like yonder image brightB
Dancing in the waters cloudless lightB
Maiden hath been slain by theeO
On the dizzy height now totter IH
Laura if from me my Laura flyH
Oh the thought to madness hurries meO
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Gladly shout the revellers as they quaffI
Raptures in the leaf crowned goblet laughI
Jests within the golden wine have birthP
Since the maiden hath enslaved my mindQ
I have left each youthful sport behindQ
Friendless roam I o'er the earthP
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Hear I still bright glory's thunder toneR
Doth the laurel still allure me onS
Doth thy lyre Apollo CynthiusJ
In my breast no echoes now ariseJ
Every shamefaced muse in sorrow fliesJ
And thou too Apollo CynthiusJ
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Shall I still be as a woman tameT
Do my pulses at my country's nameT
Proudly burst their prison thrallsJ
Would I boast the eagle's soaring wingU
Do I long with Roman blood to springU
When my Hermann callsJ
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Oh how sweet the eye's wild gaze divineV
Sweet to quaff the incense at that shrineV
Prouder bolder swells the breastK
That which once set every sense on fireW
That which once could every nerve inspireX
Scarce a half smile now hath power to wrestK
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That Orion might receive my fameT
On the time flood's heaving waves my nameT
Rocked in glory in the mighty tideY
So that Kronos' dreaded scythe was shiveredZ
When against my monument is quiveredZ
Towering toward the firmament in prideZ
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Smil'st thou No to me naught's perished nowA2
Star and laurel I'll to fools allowA2
To the dead their marble cellB2
Love hath granted all as my rewardZ
High o'er man 'twere easy to have soaredZ
So I love him wellB2

Friedrich Schiller



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