The Power Of Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEE FGHGIJIIKK LGLGMNMNII GOGOPQRQST UIUIUVUWXY

The foaming stream from out the rockA
With thunder roar begins to rushB
The oak falls prostrate at the shockA
And mountain wrecks attend the gushB
With rapturous awe in wonder lostC
The wanderer hearkens to the soundD
From cliff to cliff he hears it tossedC
Yet knows not whither it is boundD
'Tis thus that song's bright waters pourE
From sources never known beforeE
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In union with those dreaded onesF
That spin life's thread all silentlyG
Who can resist the singer's tonesH
Who from his magic set him freeG
With wand like that the gods bestowI
He guides the heaving bosom's chordsJ
He steeps it in the realms belowI
He bears it wondering heavenwardI
And rocks it 'twixt the grave and gayK
On feeling's scales that trembling swayK
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As when before the startled eyesL
Of some glad throng mysteriouslyG
With giant step in spirit guiseL
Appears a wondrous deityG
Then bows each greatness of the earthM
Before the stranger heaven bornN
Mute are the thoughtless sounds of mirthM
While from each face the mask is tornN
And from the truth's triumphant mightI
Each work of falsehood takes to flightI
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So from each idle burden freeG
When summoned by the voice of songO
Man soars to spirit dignityG
Receiving force divinely strongO
Among the gods is now his homeP
Naught earthly ventures to approachQ
All other powers must now be dumbR
No fate can on his realms encroachQ
Care's gloomy wrinkles disappearS
Whilst music's charms still linger hereT
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As after long and hopeless yearningU
And separation's bitter smartI
A child with tears repentant burningU
Clings fondly to his mother's heartI
So to his youthful happy dwellingU
To rapture pure and free from stainV
All strange and false conceits expellingU
Song guides the wanderer back againW
In faithful Nature's loving armX
From chilling precepts to grow warmY

Friedrich Schiller



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