Reproach To Laura Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKJJK LLMNNM BBOHHO IIPQQP RSJJJJ TTJUUJ VVKWXK TTYZZZ A2A2B2ZZB2Maiden 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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