The Division Of The Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIJI KLKL MNMN OPOP QRQR| Take the world Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skies | A |
| To the children of man take the world I now give | B |
| It shall ever remain as your heirloom and prize | A |
| So divide it as brothers and happily live | C |
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| Then all who had hands sought their share to obtain | D |
| The young and the aged made haste to appear | E |
| The husbandman seized on the fruits of the plain | D |
| The youth through the forest pursued the fleet deer | E |
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| The merchant took all that his warehouse could hold | F |
| The abbot selected the last year's best wine | G |
| The king barred the bridges the highways controlled | F |
| And said Now remember the tithes shall be mine | G |
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| But when the division long settled had been | H |
| The poet drew nigh from a far distant land | I |
| But alas not a remnant was now to be seen | J |
| Each thing on the earth owned a master's command | I |
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| Alas shall then I of thy sons the most true | K |
| Shall I 'mongst them all be forgotten alone | L |
| Thus loudly he cried in his anguish and threw | K |
| Himself in despair before Jupiter's throne | L |
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| If thou in the region of dreams didst delay | M |
| Complain not of me the Immortal replied | N |
| When the world was apportioned where then wert thou pray | M |
| I was said the poet I was by thy side | N |
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| Mine eye was then fixed on thy features so bright | O |
| Mine ear was entranced by thy harmony's power | P |
| Oh pardon the spirit that awed by thy light | O |
| All things of the earth could forget in that hour | P |
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| What to do Zeus exclaimed for the world has been given | Q |
| The harvest the market the chase are not free | R |
| But if thou with me wilt abide in my heaven | Q |
| Whenever thou comest 'twill be open to thee | R |
Friedrich Schiller
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