The Rivers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC D EE F GH I JK G LM C BN B BC O BP M QR Q SG R BT B UN B BV S BW Q SX B EY| RHINE | A |
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| True as becometh a Switzer I watch over Germany's borders | B |
| But the light footed Gaul jumps o'er the suffering stream | C |
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| RHINE AND MOSELLE | D |
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| Many a year have I clasped in my arms the Lorrainian maiden | E |
| But our union as yet ne'er has been blest with a son | E |
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| DANUBE IN | F |
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| Round me are dwelling the falcon eyed race the Phaeacian people | G |
| Sunday with them never ends ceaselessly moves round the spit | H |
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| MAIN | I |
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| Ay it is true that my castles are crumbling yet to my comfort | J |
| Have I for centuries past seen my old race still endure | K |
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| SAALE | G |
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| Short is my course during which I salute many princes and nations | L |
| Yet the princes are good ay and the nations are free | M |
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| ILM | C |
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| Poor are my banks it is true but yet my soft flowing waters | B |
| Many immortal lays here borne by the current along | N |
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| PLEISSE | B |
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| Flat is my shore and shallow my current alas all my writers | B |
| Both in prose and in verse drink far too deep of its stream | C |
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| ELBE | O |
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| All ye others speak only a jargon 'mongst Germany's rivers | B |
| None speak German but me I but in Misnia alone | P |
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| SPREE | M |
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| Ramler once gave me language my Caesar a subject and therefore | Q |
| I had my mouth then stuffed full but I've been silent since that | R |
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| WESER | Q |
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| Nothing alas can be said about me I really can't furnish | S |
| Matter enough to the Muse e'en for an epigram small | G |
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| MINERAL WATERS AT | R |
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| Singular country what excellent taste in its fountains and rivers | B |
| In its people alone none have I ever yet found | T |
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| PEGNTTZ | B |
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| I for a long time have been a hypochondriacal subject | U |
| I but flow on because it has my habit been long | N |
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| THE RIVERS | B |
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| We would gladly remain in the lands that own as their masters | B |
| Soft their yoke ever is and all their burdens are light | V |
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| SALZACH | S |
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| I to salt the archbishopric come from Juvavia's mountains | B |
| Then to Bavaria turn where they have great need of salt | W |
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| THE ANONYMOUS RIVER | Q |
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| Lenten food for the pious bishop's table to furnish | S |
| By my Creator I'm poured over the famishing land | X |
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| LES FLEUVES INDISCRETS | B |
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| Pray be silent ye rivers One sees ye have no more discretion | E |
| Than in a case we could name Diderot's favorites had | Y |
Friedrich Schiller
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