The Infanticide Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG CHCHIJIJ CKCKCACA CLCLMNON PQPRCDCD CSCSTUTU VWVWCXCX AYAYZAZA A2B2A2B2CC2CG OD2OD2C2E2C2E2 A2F2A2F2 A2HA2H A2EA2E A2G2A2G2 E2A2E2A2OROQ A2H2A2H2E2I2E2I2

Hark where the bells toll chiming dull and steadyA
The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed timeB
Well be it so prepare my soul is readyA
Companions of the grave the rest for crimeB
Now take O world my last farewell receivingC
My parting kisses in these tears they dwellD
Sweet are thy poisons while we taste believingC
Now we are quits heart poisoner fare thee wellD
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Farewell ye suns that once to joy invitedE
Changed for the mould beneath the funeral shadeF
Farewell farewell thou rosy time delightedE
Luring to soft desire the careless maidF
Pale gossamers of gold farewell sweet dreamingC
Fancies the children that an Eden boreG
Blossoms that died while dawn itself was gleamingC
Opening in happy sunlight never moreG
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Swanlike the robe which innocence bestowingC
Decked with the virgin favors rosy fairH
In the gay time when many a young rose glowingC
Blushed through the loose train of the amber hairH
Woe woe as white the robe that decks me nowI
The shroud like robe hell's destined victim wearsJ
Still shall the fillet bind this burning browI
That sable braid the Doomsman's hand preparesJ
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Weep ye who never fell for whom unerringC
The soul's white lilies keep their virgin hueK
Ye who when thoughts so danger sweet are stirringC
Take the stern strength that Nature gives the fewK
Woe for too human was this fond heart's feelingC
Feeling my sin's avenger doomed to beA
Woe for the false man's arm around me stealingC
Stole the lulled virtue charmed to sleep from meA
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Ah he perhaps shall round another sighingC
Forgot the serpents stinging at my breastL
Gayly when I in the dumb grave am lyingC
Pour the warm wish or speed the wanton jestL
Or play perchance with his new maiden's tressesM
Answer the kiss her lip enamored bringsN
When the dread block the head he cradled pressesO
And high the blood his kiss once fevered springsN
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Thee Francis Francis league on league shall followP
The death dirge of the Lucy once so dearQ
From yonder steeple dismal dull and hollowP
Shall knell the warning horror on thy earR
On thy fresh leman's lips when love is dawningC
And the lisped music glides from that sweet wellD
Lo in that breast a red wound shall be yawningC
And in the midst of rapture warn of hellD
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Betrayer what thy soul relentless closingC
To grief the woman shame no art can healS
To that small life beneath my heart reposingC
Man man the wild beast for its young can feelS
Proud flew the sails receding from the landT
I watched them waning from the wistful eyeU
Round the gay maids on Seine's voluptuous strandT
Breathes the false incense of his fatal sighU
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And there the babe there on the mother's bosomV
Lulled in its sweet and golden rest it layW
Fresh in life's morning as a rosy blossomV
It smiled poor harmless one my tears awayW
Deathlike yet lovely every feature speakingC
In such dear calm and beauty to my sadnessX
And cradled still the mother's heart in breakingC
The softening love and the despairing madnessX
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Woman where is my father freezing through meA
Lisped the mute innocence with thunder soundY
Woman where is thy husband called unto meA
In every look word whisper busying roundY
Alas for thee there is no father's kissZ
He fondleth other children on his kneeA
How thou wilt curse our momentary blissZ
When bastard on thy name shall branded beA
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Thy mother oh a hell her heart concealethA2
Lone sitting lone in social nature's allB2
Thirsting for that glad fount thy love revealethA2
While still thy look the glad fount turns to gallB2
In every infant cry my soul is hearkeningC
The haunting happiness forever o'erC2
And all the bitterness of death is darkeningC
The heavenly looks that smiled mine eyes beforeG
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Hell if my sight those looks a moment missesO
Hell when my sight upon those looks is turnedD2
The avenging furies madden in thy kissesO
That slept in his what time my lips they burnedD2
Out from their graves his oaths spoke back in thunderC2
The perjury stalked like murder in the sunE2
Forever God sense reason soul sunk underC2
The deed was doneE2
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Francis O Francis league on league shall chase theeA2
The shadows hurrying grimly on thy flightF2
Still with their icy arms they shall embrace theeA2
And mutter thunder in thy dream's delightF2
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Down from the soft stars in their tranquil gloryA2
Shall look thy dead child with a ghastly stareH
That shape shall haunt thee in its cerements goryA2
And scourge thee back from heaven its home is thereH
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Lifeless how lifeless see oh see before meA2
It lies cold stiff O God and with that bloodE
I feel as swoops the dizzy darkness o'er meA2
Mine own life mingled ebbing in the floodE
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Hark at the door they knock more loud within meA2
More awful still its sound the dread heart gaveG2
Gladly I welcome the cold arms that win meA2
Fire quench thy tortures in the icy graveG2
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Francis a God that pardons dwells in heavenE2
Francis the sinner yes she pardons theeA2
So let my wrongs unto the earth be givenE2
Flame seize the wood it burns it kindles seeA2
There there his letters cast behold are ashesO
His vows the conquering fire consumes them hereR
His kisses see see all are only ashesO
All all the all that once on earth were dearQ
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Trust not the roses which your youth enjoyethA2
Sisters to man's faith changeful as the moonH2
Beauty to me brought guilt its bloom destroyethA2
Lo in the judgment court I curse the boonH2
Tears in the headsman's gaze what tears 'tis spokenE2
Quick bind mine eyes all soon shall be forgotI2
Doomsman the lily hast thou never brokenE2
Pale Doomsman tremble notI2

Friedrich Schiller



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