The Bards Of Olden Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMDNO| Say where is now that glorious race where now are the singers | A |
| Who with the accents of life listening nations enthralled | B |
| Sung down from heaven the gods and sung mankind up to heaven | C |
| And who the spirit bore up high on the pinions of song | D |
| Ah the singers still live the actions only are wanting | E |
| And to awake the glad harp only a welcoming ear | F |
| Happy bards of a happy world Your life teeming accents | G |
| Flew round from mouth unto mouth gladdening every race | H |
| With the devotion with which the gods were received each one welcomed | I |
| That which the genius for him plastic and breathing then formed | J |
| With the glow of the song were inflamed the listener's senses | K |
| And with the listener's sense nourished the singer the glow | L |
| Nourished and cleansed it fortunate one for whom in the voices | M |
| Of the people still clear echoed the soul of the song | D |
| And to whom from without appeared in life the great godhead | N |
| Whom the bard of these days scarcely can feel in his breast | O |
Friedrich Schiller
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