The Triumph Of Love. A Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EFEG HIHI JJKLLK BMAM NOPO QQRABR CCSS TTUU VVWW BXBY ZZDD ABCDDC A2A2B2B2 BAC2C2 GCD2E2E2D2 HHF2F2BBG2G2 D2D2H2H2HH I2YI2J2GA2GA2 ABCDDC HHBBHH JJCK2K2D2D2C QQL2TL2T ABCDDC D2D2TD2D2TBB E2E2BAT BL2BL2H2H2 TM2BABB N2N2BO2O2BABP2P2L2G ABCDDC| By love are blest the gods on high | A |
| Frail man becomes a deity | B |
| When love to him is given | C |
| 'Tis love that makes the heavens shine | D |
| With hues more radiant more divine | D |
| And turns dull earth to heaven | C |
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| In Pyrrha's rear so poets sang | E |
| In ages past and gone | F |
| The world from rocky fragments sprang | E |
| Mankind from lifeless stone | G |
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| Their soul was but a thing of night | H |
| Like stone and rock their heart | I |
| The flaming torch of heaven so bright | H |
| Its glow could ne'er impart | I |
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| Young loves all gently hovering round | J |
| Their souls as yet had never bound | J |
| In soft and rosy chains | K |
| No feeling muse had sought to raise | L |
| Their bosoms with ennobling lays | L |
| Or sweet harmonious strains | K |
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| Around each other lovingly | B |
| No garlands then entwined | M |
| The sorrowing springs fled toward the sky | A |
| And left the earth behind | M |
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| From out the sea Aurora rose | N |
| With none to hail her then | O |
| The sun unhailed at daylight's close | P |
| In ocean sank again | O |
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| In forests wild man went astray | Q |
| Misled by Luna's cloudy ray | Q |
| He bore an iron yoke | R |
| He pined not for the stars on high | A |
| With yearning for a deity | B |
| No tears in torrents broke | R |
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| But see from out the deep blue ocean | C |
| Fair Venus springs with gentle motion | C |
| The graceful Naiad's smiling band | S |
| Conveys her to the gladdened strand | S |
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| A May like youthful magic power | T |
| Entwines like morning's twilight hour | T |
| Around that form of godlike birth | U |
| The charms of air sea heaven and earth | U |
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| The day's sweet eye begins to bloom | V |
| Across the forest's midnight gloom | V |
| Narcissuses their balm distilling | W |
| The path her footstep treads are filling | W |
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| A song of love sweet Philomel | B |
| Soon carolled through the grove | X |
| The streamlet as it murmuring fell | B |
| Discoursed of naught but love | Y |
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| Pygmalion Happy one Behold | Z |
| Life's glow pervades thy marble cold | Z |
| Oh LOVE thou conqueror all divine | D |
| Embrace each happy child of thine | D |
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| By love are blest the gods on high | A |
| Frail man becomes a deity | B |
| When love to him is given | C |
| 'Tis love that makes the heavens shine | D |
| With hues more radiant more divine | D |
| And turns dull earth to heaven | C |
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| The gods their days forever spend | A2 |
| In banquets bright that have no end | A2 |
| In one voluptuous morning dream | B2 |
| And quaff the nectar's golden stream | B2 |
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| Enthroned in awful majesty | B |
| Kronion wields the bolt on high | A |
| In abject fear Olympus rocks | C2 |
| When wrathfully he shakes his locks | C2 |
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| To other gods he leaves his throne | G |
| And fills disguised as earth's frail son | C |
| The grove with mournful numbers | D2 |
| The thunders rest beneath his feet | E2 |
| And lulled by Leda's kisses sweet | E2 |
| The Giant Slayer slumbers | D2 |
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| Through the boundless realms of light | H |
| Phoebus' golden reins so bright | H |
| Guide his horses white as snow | F2 |
| While his darts lay nations low | F2 |
| But when love and harmony | B |
| Fill his breast how willingly | B |
| Ceases Phoebus then to heed | G2 |
| Rattling dart and snow white steed | G2 |
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| See Before Kronion's spouse | D2 |
| Every great immortal bows | D2 |
| Proudly soar the peacock pair | H2 |
| As her chariot throne they bear | H2 |
| While she decks with crown of might | H |
| Her ambrosial tresses bright | H |
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| Beauteous princess ah with fear | I2 |
| Quakes before thy splendor love | Y |
| Seeking as he ventures near | I2 |
| With his power thy breast to move | J2 |
| Soon from her immortal throne | G |
| Heaven's great queen must fain descend | A2 |
| And in prayer for beauty's zone | G |
| To the heart enchainer bend | A2 |
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| By love are blest the gods on high | A |
| Frail man becomes a deity | B |
| When love to him is given | C |
| 'Tis love that makes the heavens shine | D |
| With hues more radiant more divine | D |
| And turns dull earth to heaven | C |
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| 'Tis love illumes the realms of night | H |
| For Orcus dark obeys his might | H |
| And bows before his magic spell | B |
| All kindly looks the king of hell | B |
| At Ceres' daughter's smile so bright | H |
| Yes love illumes the realms of night | H |
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| In hell were heard with heavenly sound | J |
| Holding in chains its warder bound | J |
| Thy lays O Thracian one | C |
| A gentler doom dread Minos passed | K2 |
| While down his cheeks the tears coursed fast | K2 |
| And e'en around Megaera's face | D2 |
| The serpents twined in fond embrace | D2 |
| The lashes' work seemed done | C |
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| Driven by Orpheus' lyre away | Q |
| The vulture left his giant prey | Q |
| With gentler motion rolled along | L2 |
| Dark Lethe and Cocytus' river | T |
| Enraptured Thracian by thy song | L2 |
| And love its burden was forever | T |
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| By love are blest the gods on high | A |
| Frail man becomes a deity | B |
| When love to him is given | C |
| 'Tis love that makes the heavens shine | D |
| With hues more radiant more divine | D |
| And turns dull earth to heaven | C |
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| Wherever Nature's sway extends | D2 |
| The fragrant balm of love descends | D2 |
| His golden pinions quiver | T |
| If 'twere not Venus' eye that gleams | D2 |
| Upon me in the moon's soft beams | D2 |
| In sunlit hill or river | T |
| If 'twere not Venus smiles on me | B |
| From yonder bright and starry sea | B |
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| Not stars not sun not moonbeams sweet | E2 |
| Could make my heart with rapture beat | E2 |
| 'Tis love alone that smilingly | B |
| Peers forth from Nature's blissful eye | A |
| As from a mirror ever | T |
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| Love bids the silvery streamlet roll | B |
| More gently as it sighs along | L2 |
| And breathes a living feeling soul | B |
| In Philomel's sweet plaintive song | L2 |
| 'Tis love alone that fills the air | H2 |
| With streams from Nature's lute so fair | H2 |
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| Thou wisdom with the glance of fire | T |
| Thou mighty goddess now retire | M2 |
| Love's power thou now must feel | B |
| To victor proud to monarch high | A |
| Thou ne'er hast knelt in slavery | B |
| To love thou now must kneel | B |
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| Who taught thee boldly how to climb | N2 |
| The steep but starry path sublime | N2 |
| And reach the seats immortal | B |
| Who rent the mystic veil in twain | O2 |
| And showed thee the Elysian plain | O2 |
| Beyond death's gloomy portal | B |
| If love had beckoned not from high | A |
| Had we gained immortality | B |
| If love had not inflamed each thought | P2 |
| Had we the master spirit sought | P2 |
| 'Tis love that guides the soul along | L2 |
| To Nature's Father's heavenly throne | G |
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| By love are blest the gods on high | A |
| Frail man becomes a deity | B |
| When love to him is given | C |
| 'Tis love that makes the heavens shine | D |
| With hues more radiant more divine | D |
| And turns dull earth to heaven | C |
Friedrich Schiller
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