The Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBDE DFDFDFGG HIHIHIJJ KKKKKKLL| I see her still by her fair train surrounded | A |
| The fairest of them all she took her place | B |
| Afar I stood by her bright charms confounded | C |
| For oh they dazzled with their heavenly grace | B |
| With awe my soul was filled with bliss unbounded | C |
| While gazing on her softly radiant face | B |
| But soon as if up borne on wings of fire | D |
| My fingers 'gan to sweep the sounding lyre | E |
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| The thoughts that rushed across me in that hour | D |
| The words I sang I'd fain once more invoke | F |
| Within I felt a new awakened power | D |
| That each emotion of my bosom spoke | F |
| My soul long time enchained in sloth's dull bower | D |
| Through all its fetters now triumphant broke | F |
| And brought to light unknown harmonious numbers | G |
| Which in its deepest depths had lived in slumbers | G |
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| And when the chords had ceased their gentle sighing | H |
| And when my soul rejoined its mortal frame | I |
| I looked upon her face and saw love vieing | H |
| In every feature with her maiden shame | I |
| And soon my ravished heart seemed heavenward flying | H |
| When her soft whisper o'er my senses came | I |
| The blissful seraphs' choral strains alone | J |
| Can glad mine ear again with that sweet tone | J |
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| Of that fond heart which pining silently | K |
| Ne'er ventures to express its feelings lowly | K |
| The real and modest worth is known to me | K |
| 'Gainst cruel fate I'll guard its cause so holy | K |
| Most blest of all the meek one's lot shall be | K |
| Love's flowers by love's own hand are gathered solely | K |
| The fairest prize to that fond heart is due | L |
| That feels it and that beats responsive too | L |
Friedrich Schiller
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