The Power Of Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE FGHGIJIIKK LGLGMNMNII GOGOPQRQST UIUIUVUWXY| The 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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