The Complaint Of Ceres. [29] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDCDEAEA FCFCGEGEDHDH ICICJKJKCDCD DLDLMNMNOPOP QRQRSTUTVWVW CXCXBDYDZA2ZB2 C2IC2IKD2KD2C2EC2E DCDCHA2HA2DEDE E2CE2CWMWMXJXJ F2FF2FFBFYXTXT G2FG2FFB2FA2H2XH2XDoes pleasant spring return once more | A |
Does earth her happy youth regain | B |
Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er | C |
Soft brooklets burst their icy chain | B |
Upon the blue translucent river | C |
Laughs down an all unclouded day | D |
The winged west winds gently quiver | C |
The buds are bursting from the spray | D |
While birds are blithe on every tree | E |
The Oread from the mountain shore | A |
Sighs Lo thy flowers come back to thee | E |
Thy child sad mother comes no more | A |
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Alas how long an age it seems | F |
Since all the earth I wandered over | C |
And vainly Titan tasked thy beams | F |
The loved the lost one to discover | C |
Though all may seek yet none can call | G |
Her tender presence back to me | E |
The sun with eyes detecting all | G |
Is blind one vanished form to see | E |
Hast thou O Zeus hast thou away | D |
From these sad arms my daughter torn | H |
Has Pluto from the realms of day | D |
Enamored to dark rivers borne | H |
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Who to the dismal phantom strand | I |
The herald of my grief will venture | C |
The boat forever leaves the land | I |
But only shadows there may enter | C |
Veiled from each holier eye repose | J |
The realms where midnight wraps the dead | K |
And while the Stygian river flows | J |
No living footstep there may tread | K |
A thousand pathways wind the drear | C |
Descent none upward lead to day | D |
No witness to the mother's ear | C |
The daughter's sorrows can betray | D |
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Mothers of happy human clay | D |
Can share at least their children's doom | L |
And when the loved ones pass away | D |
Can track can join them in the tomb | L |
The race alone of heavenly birth | M |
Are banished from the darksome portals | N |
The Fates have mercy on the earth | M |
And death is only kind to mortals | N |
Oh plunge me in the night of nights | O |
From heaven's ambrosial halls exiled | P |
Oh let the goddess lose the rights | O |
That shut the mother from the child | P |
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Where sits the dark king's joyless bride | Q |
Where midst the dead her home is made | R |
Oh that my noiseless steps might glide | Q |
Amidst the shades myself a shade | R |
I see her eyes that search through tears | S |
In vain the golden light to greet | T |
That yearn for yonder distant spheres | U |
That pine the mother's face to meet | T |
Till some bright moment shall renew | V |
The severed hearts' familiar ties | W |
And softened pity steal in dew | V |
From Pluto's slow relenting eyes | W |
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Ah vain the wish the sorrows are | C |
Calm in the changeless paths above | X |
Rolls on the day god's golden car | C |
Fast are the fixed decrees of Jove | X |
Far from the ever gloomy plain | B |
He turns his blissful looks away | D |
Alas night never gives again | Y |
What once it seizes as its prey | D |
Till over Lethe's sullen swell | Z |
Aurora's rosy hues shall glow | A2 |
And arching through the midmost hell | Z |
Shine forth the lovely Iris bow | B2 |
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And is there naught of her no token | C2 |
No pledge from that beloved hand | I |
To tell how love remains unbroken | C2 |
How far soever be the land | I |
Has love no link no lightest thread | K |
The mother to the child to bind | D2 |
Between the living and the dead | K |
Can hope no holy compact find | D2 |
No every bond is not yet riven | C2 |
We are not yet divided wholly | E |
To us the eternal powers have given | C2 |
A symbol language sweet and holy | E |
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When Spring's fair children pass away | D |
When in the north wind's icy air | C |
The leaf and flower alike decay | D |
And leave the rivelled branches bare | C |
Then from Vertumnus' lavish horn | H |
I take life's seeds to strew below | A2 |
And bid the gold that germs the corn | H |
An offering to the Styx to go | A2 |
Sad in the earth the seeds I lay | D |
Laid at thy heart my child to be | E |
The mournful tokens which convey | D |
My sorrow and my love to thee | E |
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But when the hours in measured dance | E2 |
The happy smile of spring restore | C |
Rife in the sun god's golden glance | E2 |
The buried dead revive once more | C |
The germs that perished to thine eyes | W |
Within the cold breast of the earth | M |
Spring up to bloom in gentler skies | W |
The brighter for the second birth | M |
The stem its blossom rears above | X |
Its roots in night's dark womb repose | J |
The plant but by the equal love | X |
Of light and darkness fostered grows | J |
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If half with death the germs may sleep | F2 |
Yet half with life they share the beams | F |
My heralds from the dreary deep | F2 |
Soft voices from the solemn streams | F |
Like her so them awhile entombs | F |
Stern Orcus in his dismal reign | B |
Yet spring sends forth their tender blooms | F |
With such sweet messages again | Y |
To tell how far from light above | X |
Where only mournful shadows meet | T |
Memory is still alive to love | X |
And still the faithful heart can beat | T |
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Joy to ye children of the field | G2 |
Whose life each coming year renews | F |
To your sweet cups the heaven shall yield | G2 |
The purest of its nectar dews | F |
Steeped in the light's resplendent streams | F |
The hues that streak the Iris bow | B2 |
Shall trim your blooms as with the beams | F |
The looks of young Aurora know | A2 |
The budding life of happy spring | H2 |
The yellow autumn's faded leaf | X |
Alike to gentle hearts shall bring | H2 |
The symbols of my joy and grief | X |
Friedrich Schiller
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