The Assignation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEFGFG HIHIJEJEKLKL MNMNOPOPQNQN IKIK RARASLSJ TATA NLNLKLSL SASA| Hear I the creaking gate unclose | A |
| The gleaming latch uplifted | B |
| No 'twas the wind that whirring rose | A |
| Amidst the poplars drifted | C |
| Adorn thyself thou green leaf bowering roof | D |
| Destined the bright one's presence to receive | E |
| For her a shadowy palace hall aloof | D |
| With holy night thy boughs familiar weave | E |
| And ye sweet flatteries of the delicate air | F |
| Awake and sport her rosy cheek around | G |
| When their light weight the tender feet shall bear | F |
| When beauty comes to passion's trysting ground | G |
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| Hush what amidst the copses crept | H |
| So swiftly by me now | I |
| No 'twas the startled bird that swept | H |
| The light leaves of the bough | I |
| Day quench thy torch come ghostlike from on high | J |
| With thy loved silence come thou haunting Eve | E |
| Broaden below thy web of purple dye | J |
| Which lulled boughs mysterious round us weave | E |
| For love's delight enduring listeners none | K |
| The froward witness of the light will flee | L |
| Hesper alone the rosy silent one | K |
| Down glancing may our sweet familiar be | L |
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| What murmur in the distance spoke | M |
| And like a whisper died | N |
| No 'twas the swan that gently broke | M |
| In rings the silver tide | N |
| Soft to my ear there comes a music flow | O |
| In gleesome murmur glides the waterfall | P |
| To zephyr's kiss the flowers are bending low | O |
| Through life goes joy exchanging joy with all | P |
| Tempt to the touch the grapes the blushing fruit | Q |
| Voluptuous swelling from the leaves that bide | N |
| And drinking fever from my cheek the mute | Q |
| Air sleeps all liquid in the odor tide | N |
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| Hark through the alley hear I now | I |
| A footfall Comes the maiden | K |
| No 'twas the fruit slid from the bough | I |
| With its own richness laden | K |
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| Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death | R |
| And pale and paler wane his jocund hues | A |
| The flowers too gentle for his glowing breath | R |
| Ope their frank beauty to the twilight dews | A |
| The bright face of the moon is still and lone | S |
| Melts in vast masses the world silently | L |
| Slides from each charm the slowly loosening zone | S |
| And round all beauty veilless roves the eye | J |
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| What yonder seems to glimmer | T |
| Her white robe's glancing hues | A |
| No 'twas the column's shimmer | T |
| Athwart the darksome yews | A |
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| O longing heart no more delight upbuoyed | N |
| Let the sweet airy image thee befool | L |
| The arms that would embrace her clasp the void | N |
| This feverish breast no phantom bliss can cool | L |
| O waft her here the true the living one | K |
| Let but my hand her hand the tender feel | L |
| The very shadow of her robe alone | S |
| So into life the idle dream shall steal | L |
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| As glide from heaven when least we ween | S |
| The rosy hours of bliss | A |
| All gently came the maid unseen | S |
| He waked beneath her kiss | A |
Friedrich Schiller
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