The Alpine Hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFDD GHGHDD IJIJGG KLMLDN OLOLDD PQPQRR NSNSDD| Wilt thou not the lambkins guard | A |
| Oh how soft and meek they look | B |
| Feeding on the grassy sward | C |
| Sporting round the silvery brook | B |
| Mother mother let me go | D |
| On yon heights to chase the roe | D |
| - | |
| Wilt thou not the flock compel | E |
| With the horn's inspiring notes | F |
| Sweet the echo of yon bell | E |
| As across the wood it floats | F |
| Mother mother let me go | D |
| On yon heights to hunt the roe | D |
| - | |
| Wilt thou not the flow'rets bind | G |
| Smiling gently in their bed | H |
| For no garden thou wilt find | G |
| On yon heights so wild and dread | H |
| Leave the flow'rets let them blow | D |
| Mother mother let me go | D |
| - | |
| And the youth then sought the chase | I |
| Onward pressed with headlong speed | J |
| To the mountain's gloomiest place | I |
| Naught his progress could impede | J |
| And before him like the wind | G |
| Swiftly flies the trembling hind | G |
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| Up the naked precipice | K |
| Clambers she with footsteps light | L |
| O'er the chasm's dark abyss | M |
| Leaps with spring of daring might | L |
| But behind unweariedly | D |
| With his death bow follows he | N |
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| Now upon the rugged top | O |
| Stands she on the loftiest height | L |
| Where the cliffs abruptly stop | O |
| And the path is lost to sight | L |
| There she views the steeps below | D |
| Close behind her mortal foe | D |
| - | |
| She with silent woeful gaze | P |
| Seeks the cruel boy to move | Q |
| But alas in vain she prays | P |
| To the string he fits the groove | Q |
| When from out the clefts behold | R |
| Steps the Mountain Genius old | R |
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| With his hand the Deity | N |
| Shields the beast that trembling sighs | S |
| Must thou even up to me | N |
| Death and anguish send he cries | S |
| Earth has room for all to dwell | D |
| Why pursue my loved gazelle | D |
Friedrich Schiller
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