Friedrich Schiller

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The Fugitive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FFGHHH IIJKKL HHMMFNOF KKPQQP RSRS HHHH

The air is perfumed with the morning's fresh breezeA
From the bush peer the sunbeams all purple and brightB
While they gleam through the clefts of the dark waving treesA
And the cloud crested mountains are golden with lightB
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With joyful melodious ravishing strainC
The lark as he wakens salutes the glad sunD
Who glows in the arms of Aurora againE
And blissfully smiling his race 'gins to runD
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All hail light of dayF
Thy sweet gushing rayF
Pours down its soft warmth over pasture and fieldG
With hues silver tingedH
The meadows are fringedH
And numberless suns in the dewdrop revealedH
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Young Nature invadesI
The whispering shadesI
Displaying each ravishing charmJ
The soft zephyr blowsK
And kisses the roseK
The plain is sweet scented with balmL
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How high from yon city the smoke clouds ascendH
Their neighing and snorting and bellowing blendH
The horses and cattleM
The chariot wheels rattleM
As down to the valley they take their mad wayF
And even the forest where life seems to moveN
The eagle and falcon and hawk soar aboveO
And flutter their pinions in heaven's bright rayF
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In search of reposeK
From my heart rending woesK
Oh where shall my sad spirit fleeP
The earth's smiling faceQ
With its sweet youthful graceQ
A tomb must alas be for meP
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Arise then thou sunlight of morning and flingR
O'er plain and o'er forest thy purple dyed beamsS
Thou twilight of evening all noiselessly singR
In melody soft to the world as it dreamsS
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Ah sunlight of morning to me thou but flingestH
Thy purple dyed beams o'er the grave of the pastH
Ah twilight of evening thy strains thou but singestH
To one whose deep slumbers forever must lastH

Friedrich Schiller



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