The Triumph Of Love 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 ABCDDCBy 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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