The Power Of Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE FGHGIJIIKK LGLGMNMNII GOGOPQRQST UIUIUVUWXYThe foaming stream from out the rock | A |
With thunder roar begins to rush | B |
The oak falls prostrate at the shock | A |
And mountain wrecks attend the gush | B |
With rapturous awe in wonder lost | C |
The wanderer hearkens to the sound | D |
From cliff to cliff he hears it tossed | C |
Yet knows not whither it is bound | D |
'Tis thus that song's bright waters pour | E |
From sources never known before | E |
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In union with those dreaded ones | F |
That spin life's thread all silently | G |
Who can resist the singer's tones | H |
Who from his magic set him free | G |
With wand like that the gods bestow | I |
He guides the heaving bosom's chords | J |
He steeps it in the realms below | I |
He bears it wondering heavenward | I |
And rocks it 'twixt the grave and gay | K |
On feeling's scales that trembling sway | K |
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As when before the startled eyes | L |
Of some glad throng mysteriously | G |
With giant step in spirit guise | L |
Appears a wondrous deity | G |
Then bows each greatness of the earth | M |
Before the stranger heaven born | N |
Mute are the thoughtless sounds of mirth | M |
While from each face the mask is torn | N |
And from the truth's triumphant might | I |
Each work of falsehood takes to flight | I |
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So from each idle burden free | G |
When summoned by the voice of song | O |
Man soars to spirit dignity | G |
Receiving force divinely strong | O |
Among the gods is now his home | P |
Naught earthly ventures to approach | Q |
All other powers must now be dumb | R |
No fate can on his realms encroach | Q |
Care's gloomy wrinkles disappear | S |
Whilst music's charms still linger here | T |
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As after long and hopeless yearning | U |
And separation's bitter smart | I |
A child with tears repentant burning | U |
Clings fondly to his mother's heart | I |
So to his youthful happy dwelling | U |
To rapture pure and free from stain | V |
All strange and false conceits expelling | U |
Song guides the wanderer back again | W |
In faithful Nature's loving arm | X |
From chilling precepts to grow warm | Y |
Friedrich Schiller
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