The Complaint Of Ceres. [29] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDCDEAEA FCFCGEGEDHDH ICICJKJKCDCD DLDLMNMNOPOP QRQRSTUTVWVW CXCXBDYDZA2ZB2 C2IC2IKD2KD2C2EC2E DCDCHA2HA2DEDE E2CE2CWMWMXJXJ F2FF2FFBFYXTXT G2FG2FFB2FA2H2XH2X

Does pleasant spring return once moreA
Does earth her happy youth regainB
Sweet suns green hills are shining o'erC
Soft brooklets burst their icy chainB
Upon the blue translucent riverC
Laughs down an all unclouded dayD
The winged west winds gently quiverC
The buds are bursting from the sprayD
While birds are blithe on every treeE
The Oread from the mountain shoreA
Sighs Lo thy flowers come back to theeE
Thy child sad mother comes no moreA
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Alas how long an age it seemsF
Since all the earth I wandered overC
And vainly Titan tasked thy beamsF
The loved the lost one to discoverC
Though all may seek yet none can callG
Her tender presence back to meE
The sun with eyes detecting allG
Is blind one vanished form to seeE
Hast thou O Zeus hast thou awayD
From these sad arms my daughter tornH
Has Pluto from the realms of dayD
Enamored to dark rivers borneH
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Who to the dismal phantom strandI
The herald of my grief will ventureC
The boat forever leaves the landI
But only shadows there may enterC
Veiled from each holier eye reposeJ
The realms where midnight wraps the deadK
And while the Stygian river flowsJ
No living footstep there may treadK
A thousand pathways wind the drearC
Descent none upward lead to dayD
No witness to the mother's earC
The daughter's sorrows can betrayD
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Mothers of happy human clayD
Can share at least their children's doomL
And when the loved ones pass awayD
Can track can join them in the tombL
The race alone of heavenly birthM
Are banished from the darksome portalsN
The Fates have mercy on the earthM
And death is only kind to mortalsN
Oh plunge me in the night of nightsO
From heaven's ambrosial halls exiledP
Oh let the goddess lose the rightsO
That shut the mother from the childP
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Where sits the dark king's joyless brideQ
Where midst the dead her home is madeR
Oh that my noiseless steps might glideQ
Amidst the shades myself a shadeR
I see her eyes that search through tearsS
In vain the golden light to greetT
That yearn for yonder distant spheresU
That pine the mother's face to meetT
Till some bright moment shall renewV
The severed hearts' familiar tiesW
And softened pity steal in dewV
From Pluto's slow relenting eyesW
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Ah vain the wish the sorrows areC
Calm in the changeless paths aboveX
Rolls on the day god's golden carC
Fast are the fixed decrees of JoveX
Far from the ever gloomy plainB
He turns his blissful looks awayD
Alas night never gives againY
What once it seizes as its preyD
Till over Lethe's sullen swellZ
Aurora's rosy hues shall glowA2
And arching through the midmost hellZ
Shine forth the lovely Iris bowB2
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And is there naught of her no tokenC2
No pledge from that beloved handI
To tell how love remains unbrokenC2
How far soever be the landI
Has love no link no lightest threadK
The mother to the child to bindD2
Between the living and the deadK
Can hope no holy compact findD2
No every bond is not yet rivenC2
We are not yet divided whollyE
To us the eternal powers have givenC2
A symbol language sweet and holyE
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When Spring's fair children pass awayD
When in the north wind's icy airC
The leaf and flower alike decayD
And leave the rivelled branches bareC
Then from Vertumnus' lavish hornH
I take life's seeds to strew belowA2
And bid the gold that germs the cornH
An offering to the Styx to goA2
Sad in the earth the seeds I layD
Laid at thy heart my child to beE
The mournful tokens which conveyD
My sorrow and my love to theeE
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But when the hours in measured danceE2
The happy smile of spring restoreC
Rife in the sun god's golden glanceE2
The buried dead revive once moreC
The germs that perished to thine eyesW
Within the cold breast of the earthM
Spring up to bloom in gentler skiesW
The brighter for the second birthM
The stem its blossom rears aboveX
Its roots in night's dark womb reposeJ
The plant but by the equal loveX
Of light and darkness fostered growsJ
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If half with death the germs may sleepF2
Yet half with life they share the beamsF
My heralds from the dreary deepF2
Soft voices from the solemn streamsF
Like her so them awhile entombsF
Stern Orcus in his dismal reignB
Yet spring sends forth their tender bloomsF
With such sweet messages againY
To tell how far from light aboveX
Where only mournful shadows meetT
Memory is still alive to loveX
And still the faithful heart can beatT
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Joy to ye children of the fieldG2
Whose life each coming year renewsF
To your sweet cups the heaven shall yieldG2
The purest of its nectar dewsF
Steeped in the light's resplendent streamsF
The hues that streak the Iris bowB2
Shall trim your blooms as with the beamsF
The looks of young Aurora knowA2
The budding life of happy springH2
The yellow autumn's faded leafX
Alike to gentle hearts shall bringH2
The symbols of my joy and griefX

Friedrich Schiller



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