The Knight Of Toggenburg. A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE AFAFAGAG CHCHAAAA CICICJCJ AKAKKLKM NKNKAKAK CKCKCLCO NPNPCQCQ RSRTNPNP CQCQCUCU| I Can love thee well believe me | A |
| As a sister true | B |
| Other love Sir Knight would grieve me | A |
| Sore my heart would rue | B |
| Calmly would I see thee going | C |
| Calmly too appear | D |
| For those tears in silence flowing | C |
| Find no answer here | E |
| - | |
| Thus she speaks he hears her sadly | A |
| How his heartstrings bleed | F |
| In his arms he clasps her madly | A |
| Then he mounts his steed | F |
| From the Switzer land collects he | A |
| All his warriors brave | G |
| Cross on breast their course directs he | A |
| To the Holy Grave | G |
| - | |
| In triumphant march advancing | C |
| Onward moves the host | H |
| While their morion plumes are dancing | C |
| Where the foes are most | H |
| Mortal terror strikes the Paynim | A |
| At the chieftain's name | A |
| But the knight's sad thoughts enchain him | A |
| Grief consumes his frame | A |
| - | |
| Twelve long months with courage daring | C |
| Peace he strives to find | I |
| Then at last of rest despairing | C |
| Leaves the host behind | I |
| Sees a ship whose sails are swelling | C |
| Lie on Joppa's strand | J |
| Ships him homeward for her dwelling | C |
| In his own loved land | J |
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| Now behold the pilgrim weary | A |
| At her castle gate | K |
| But alas these accents dreary | A |
| Seal his mournful fate | K |
| She thou seek'st her troth hath plighted | K |
| To all gracious heaven | L |
| To her God she was united | K |
| Yesterday at even | M |
| - | |
| To his father's home forever | N |
| Bids he now adieu | K |
| Sees no more his arms and beaver | N |
| Nor his steed so true | K |
| Then descends he sadly slowly | A |
| None suspect the sight | K |
| For a garb of penance lowly | A |
| Wears the noble knight | K |
| - | |
| Soon he now the tempest braving | C |
| Builds an humble shed | K |
| Where o'er the lime trees darkly waving | C |
| Peeps the convent's head | K |
| From the orb of day's first gleaming | C |
| Till his race has run | L |
| Hope in every feature beaming | C |
| There he sits alone | O |
| - | |
| Toward the convent straining ever | N |
| His unwearied eyes | P |
| From her casement looking never | N |
| Till it open flies | P |
| Till the loved one soft advancing | C |
| Shows her gentle face | Q |
| O'er the vale her sweet eye glancing | C |
| Full of angel grace | Q |
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| Then he seeks his bed of rushes | R |
| Stilled all grief and pain | S |
| Slumbering calm till morning's blushes | R |
| Waken life again | T |
| Days and years fleet on yet never | N |
| Breathes he plaint or sighs | P |
| On her casement gazing ever | N |
| Till it open flies | P |
| - | |
| Till the loved one soft advancing | C |
| Shows her gentle face | Q |
| O'er the vale her sweet eyes glancing | C |
| Full of angel grace | Q |
| But at length the morn returning | C |
| Finds him dead and chill | U |
| Pale and wan his gaze with yearning | C |
| Seeks her casement still | U |
Friedrich Schiller
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