The Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGCGGHGH IJIJKLKL GAGBGMGM| She sought to breathe one word but vainly | A |
| Too many listeners were nigh | B |
| And yet my timid glance read plainly | A |
| The language of her speaking eye | B |
| Thy silent glades my footstep presses | C |
| Thou fair and leaf embosomed grove | D |
| Conceal within thy green recesses | C |
| From mortal eye our sacred love | E |
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| Afar with strange discordant noises | F |
| The busy day is echoing | G |
| And 'mid the hollow hum of voices | C |
| I hear the heavy hammer ring | G |
| 'Tis thus that man with toil ne'er ending | G |
| Extorts from heaven his daily bread | H |
| Yet oft unseen the Gods are sending | G |
| The gifts of fortune on his head | H |
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| Oh let mankind discover never | I |
| How true love fills with bliss our hearts | J |
| They would but crush our joy forever | I |
| For joy to them no glow imparts | J |
| Thou ne'er wilt from the world obtain it | K |
| 'Tis never captured save as prey | L |
| Thou needs must strain each nerve to gain it | K |
| E'er envy dark asserts her sway | L |
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| The hours of night and stillness loving | G |
| It comes upon us silently | A |
| Away with hasty footstep moving | G |
| Soon as it sees a treacherous eye | B |
| Thou gentle stream soft circlets weaving | G |
| A watery barrier cast around | M |
| And with thy waves in anger heaving | G |
| Guard from each foe this holy ground | M |
Friedrich Schiller
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