The Commencement Of The New Century Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GCGH IJIJ KJKJ LMLM NMNM OPOP| Where will a place of refuge noble friend | A |
| For peace and freedom ever open lie | B |
| The century in tempests had its end | A |
| The new one now begins with murder's cry | B |
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| Each land connecting bond is torn away | C |
| Each ancient custom hastens to decline | D |
| Not e'en the ocean can war's tumult stay | C |
| Not e'en the Nile god not the hoary Rhine | D |
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| Two mighty nations strive with hostile power | E |
| For undivided mastery of the world | F |
| And by them each land's freedom to devour | E |
| The trident brandished is the lightning hurled | F |
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| Each country must to them its gold afford | G |
| And Brennus like upon the fatal day | C |
| The Frank now throws his heavy iron sword | G |
| The even scales of justice to o'erweigh | H |
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| His merchant fleets the Briton greedily | I |
| Extends like polyp limbs on every side | J |
| And the domain of Amphitrite free | I |
| As if his home it were would fain bestride | J |
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| E'en to the south pole's dim remotest star | K |
| His restless course moves onward unrestrained | J |
| Each isle he tracks each coast however far | K |
| But paradise alone he ne'er has gained | J |
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| Although thine eye may every map explore | L |
| Vainly thou'lt seek to find that blissful place | M |
| Where freedom's garden smiles for evermore | L |
| And where in youth still blooms the human race | M |
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| Before thy gaze the world extended lies | N |
| The very shipping it can scarce embrace | M |
| And yet upon her back of boundless size | N |
| E'en for ten happy men there is not space | M |
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| Into thy bosom's holy silent cells | O |
| Thou needs must fly from life's tumultuous throng | P |
| Freedom but in the realm of vision dwells | O |
| And beauty bears no blossoms but in song | P |
Friedrich Schiller
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