The Lay Of The Mountain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF CGCGHH IJIJKK LMLMNN OPQPMM

To the solemn abyss leads the terrible pathA
The life and death winding dizzy betweenB
In thy desolate way grim with menace and wrathA
To daunt thee the spectres of giants are seenB
That thou wake not the wild one all silently treadC
Let thy lip breathe no breath in the pathway of dreadC
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High over the marge of the horrible deepD
Hangs and hovers a bridge with its phantom like spanE
Not by man was it built o'er the vastness to sweepD
Such thought never came to the daring of manE
The stream roars beneath late and early it ravesF
But the bridge which it threatens is safe from the wavesF
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Black yawning a portal thy soul to affrightC
Like the gate to the kingdom the fiend for the kingG
Yet beyond it there smiles but a land of delightC
Where the autumn in marriage is met with the springG
From a lot which the care and the trouble assailH
Could I fly to the bliss of that balm breathing valeH
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Through that field from a fount ever hidden their birthI
Four rivers in tumult rush roaringly forthJ
They fly to the fourfold divisions of earthI
The sunrise the sunset the south and the northJ
And true to the mystical mother that boreK
Forth they rush to their goal and are lost evermoreK
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High over the races of men in the blueL
Of the ether the mount in twin summits is rivenM
There veiled in the gold woven webs of the dewL
Moves the dance of the clouds the pale daughters of heavenM
There in solitude circles their mystical mazeN
Where no witness can hearken no earthborn surveysN
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August on a throne which no ages can moveO
Sits a queen in her beauty serene and sublimeP
The diadem blazing with diamonds aboveQ
The glory of brows never darkened by timeP
His arrows of light on that form shoots the sunM
And he gilds them with all but he warms them with noneM

Friedrich Schiller



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