The Complaint Of Ceres Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDCDEAED FCFCGEGEDHDH DCDCIDIDCDCD DJDJKLKLMDMD DDDDNDODPQPQ CRCRBDSDTUTV WDWDDDDDWEWE DCDCHUHUDEDE XCXCQKQKRIRI YFYFFBFSRDRD DFDFFVFUZRZR| Does 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 quot Lo thy flowers come back to thee | E |
| Thy child sad mother comes no more quot | D |
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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 | D |
| The herald of my grief will venture | C |
| The boat forever leaves the land | D |
| But only shadows there may enter | C |
| Veiled from each holier eye repose | I |
| The realms where midnight wraps the dead | D |
| And while the Stygian river flows | I |
| No living footstep there may tread | D |
| 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 | J |
| And when the loved ones pass away | D |
| Can track can join them in the tomb | J |
| The race alone of heavenly birth | K |
| Are banished from the darksome portals | L |
| The Fates have mercy on the earth | K |
| And death is only kind to mortals | L |
| Oh plunge me in the night of nights | M |
| From heaven's ambrosial halls exiled | D |
| Oh let the goddess lose the rights | M |
| That shut the mother from the child | D |
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| Where sits the dark king's joyless bride | D |
| Where midst the dead her home is made | D |
| Oh that my noiseless steps might glide | D |
| Amidst the shades myself a shade | D |
| I see her eyes that search through tears | N |
| In vain the golden light to greet | D |
| That yearn for yonder distant spheres | O |
| That pine the mother's face to meet | D |
| Till some bright moment shall renew | P |
| The severed hearts' familiar ties | Q |
| And softened pity steal in dew | P |
| From Pluto's slow relenting eyes | Q |
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| Ah vain the wish the sorrows are | C |
| Calm in the changeless paths above | R |
| Rolls on the day god's golden car | C |
| Fast are the fixed decrees of Jove | R |
| Far from the ever gloomy plain | B |
| He turns his blissful looks away | D |
| Alas night never gives again | S |
| What once it seizes as its prey | D |
| Till over Lethe's sullen swell | T |
| Aurora's rosy hues shall glow | U |
| And arching through the midmost hell | T |
| Shine forth the lovely Iris bow | V |
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| And is there naught of her no token | W |
| No pledge from that beloved hand | D |
| To tell how love remains unbroken | W |
| How far soever be the land | D |
| Has love no link no lightest thread | D |
| The mother to the child to bind | D |
| Between the living and the dead | D |
| Can hope no holy compact find | D |
| No every bond is not yet riven | W |
| We are not yet divided wholly | E |
| To us the eternal powers have given | W |
| 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 | U |
| And bid the gold that germs the corn | H |
| An offering to the Styx to go | U |
| 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 | X |
| The happy smile of spring restore | C |
| Rife in the sun god's golden glance | X |
| The buried dead revive once more | C |
| The germs that perished to thine eyes | Q |
| Within the cold breast of the earth | K |
| Spring up to bloom in gentler skies | Q |
| The brighter for the second birth | K |
| The stem its blossom rears above | R |
| Its roots in night's dark womb repose | I |
| The plant but by the equal love | R |
| Of light and darkness fostered grows | I |
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| If half with death the germs may sleep | Y |
| Yet half with life they share the beams | F |
| My heralds from the dreary deep | Y |
| 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 | S |
| To tell how far from light above | R |
| Where only mournful shadows meet | D |
| Memory is still alive to love | R |
| And still the faithful heart can beat | D |
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| Joy to ye children of the field | D |
| Whose life each coming year renews | F |
| To your sweet cups the heaven shall yield | D |
| The purest of its nectar dews | F |
| Steeped in the light's resplendent streams | F |
| The hues that streak the Iris bow | V |
| Shall trim your blooms as with the beams | F |
| The looks of young Aurora know | U |
| The budding life of happy spring | Z |
| The yellow autumn's faded leaf | R |
| Alike to gentle hearts shall bring | Z |
| The symbols of my joy and grief | R |
Friedrich Schiller
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