The Maiden's Lament Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDC EFCFGHC GIJIKKL GIJIKKL| The clouds fast gather | A |
| The forest oaks roar | B |
| A maiden is sitting | C |
| Beside the green shore | B |
| The billows are breaking with might with might | D |
| And she sighs aloud in the darkling night | D |
| Her eyelid heavy with weeping | C |
| - | |
| My heart's dead within me | E |
| The world is a void | F |
| To the wish it gives nothing | C |
| Each hope is destroyed | F |
| I have tasted the fulness of bliss below | G |
| I have lived I have loved Thy child oh take now | H |
| Thou Holy One into Thy keeping | C |
| - | |
| In vain is thy sorrow | G |
| In vain thy tears fall | I |
| For the dead from their slumbers | J |
| They ne'er can recall | I |
| Yet if aught can pour comfort and balm in thy heart | K |
| Now that love its sweet pleasures no more can impart | K |
| Speak thy wish and thou granted shalt find it | L |
| - | |
| Though in vain is my sorrow | G |
| Though in vain my tears fall | I |
| Though the dead from their slumbers | J |
| They ne'er can recall | I |
| Yet no balm is so sweet to the desolate heart | K |
| When love its soft pleasures no more can impart | K |
| As the torments that love leaves behind it | L |
Friedrich Schiller
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