Resignation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAC DEDDF GHGGH IJIIJ KLKKL KMKKM NONNO KP KO AKK KKKK QRQQ KGKK STSS USUUS KFKKT KVV WXWW KGKK| Yes even I was in Arcadia born | A |
| And in mine infant ears | B |
| A vow of rapture was by Nature sworn | A |
| Yes even I was in Arcadia born | A |
| And yet my short spring gave me only tears | C |
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| Once blooms and only once life's youthful May | D |
| For me its bloom hath gone | E |
| The silent God O brethren weep to day | D |
| The silent God hath quenched my torch's ray | D |
| And the vain dream hath flown | F |
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| Upon thy darksome bridge Eternity | G |
| I stand e'en now dread thought | H |
| Take then these joy credentials back from me | G |
| Unopened I return them now to thee | G |
| Of happiness alas know naught | H |
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| Before Thy throne my mournful cries I vent | I |
| Thou Judge concealed from view | J |
| To yonder star a joyous saying went | I |
| With judgment's scales to rule us thou art sent | I |
| And call'st thyself Requiter too | J |
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| Here say they terrors on the bad alight | K |
| And joys to greet the virtuous spring | L |
| The bosom's windings thou'lt expose to sight | K |
| Riddle of Providence wilt solve aright | K |
| And reckon with the suffering | L |
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| Here to the exile be a home outspread | K |
| Here end the meek man's thorny path of strife | M |
| A godlike child whose name was Truth they said | K |
| Known but to few from whom the many fled | K |
| Restrained the ardent bridle of my life | M |
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| 'It shall be thine another life to live | N |
| Thy youth to me surrender | O |
| To thee this surety only can I give' | N |
| I took the surety in that life to live | N |
| And gave to her each youthful joy so tender | O |
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| 'Give me the woman precious to thy heart | K |
| Give up to me thy Laura | P |
| Beyond the grave will usury pay the smart ' | - |
| I wept aloud and from my bleeding heart | K |
| With resignation tore her | O |
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| 'The obligation's drawn upon the dead ' | - |
| Thus laughed the world in scorn | A |
| 'The lying one in league with despots dread | K |
| For truth a phantom palmed on thee instead | K |
| Thou'lt be no more when once this dream has gone ' | - |
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| Shamelessly scoffed the mockers' serpent band | K |
| 'A dream that but prescription can admit | K |
| Dost dread Where now thy God's protecting hand | K |
| The sick world's Saviour with such cunning planned | K |
| Borrowed by human need of human wit ' | - |
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| 'What future is't that graves to us reveal | Q |
| What the eternity of thy discourse | R |
| Honored because dark veils its form conceal | Q |
| The giant shadows of the awe we feel | Q |
| Viewed in the hollow mirror of remorse ' | - |
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| 'An image false of shapes of living mould | K |
| Time's very mummy she | G |
| Whom only Hope's sweet balm hath power to hold | K |
| Within the chambers of the grave so cold | K |
| Thy fever calls this immortality ' | - |
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| 'For empty hopes corruption gives the lie | S |
| Didst thou exchange what thou hadst surely done | T |
| Six thousand years sped death in silence by | S |
| His corpse from out the grave e'er mounted high | S |
| That mention made of the Requiting One ' | - |
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| I saw time fly to reach thy distant shore | U |
| I saw fair Nature lie | S |
| A shrivelled corpse behind him evermore | U |
| No dead from out the grave then sought to soar | U |
| Yet in that Oath divine still trusted I | S |
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| My ev'ry joy to thee I've sacrificed | K |
| I throw me now before thy judgment throne | F |
| The many's scorn with boldness I've despised | K |
| Only thy gifts by me were ever prized | K |
| I ask my wages now Requiting One | T |
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| 'With equal love I love each child of mine ' | - |
| A genius hid from sight exclaimed | K |
| 'Two flowers ' he cried 'ye mortals mark the sign | V |
| Two flowers to greet the Searcher wise entwine | V |
| Hope and Enjoyment they are named ' | - |
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| 'Who of these flowers plucks one let him ne'er yearn | W |
| To touch the other sister's bloom | X |
| Let him enjoy who has no faith eterne | W |
| As earth this truth Abstain who faith can learn | W |
| The world's long story is the world's own doom ' | - |
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| 'Hope thou hast felt thy wages then are paid | K |
| Thy faith 'twas formed the rapture pledged to thee | G |
| Thou might'st have of the wise inquiry made | K |
| The minutes thou neglectest as they fade | K |
| Are given back by no eternity ' | - |
Friedrich Schiller
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