The Triumph Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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By love are blest the gods on highA
Frail man becomes a deityB
When love to him is givenC
'Tis love that makes the heavens shineD
With hues more radiant more divineD
And turns dull earth to heavenC
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In Pyrrha's rear so poets sangE
In ages past and goneF
The world from rocky fragments sprangE
Mankind from lifeless stoneG
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Their soul was but a thing of nightH
Like stone and rock their heartI
The flaming torch of heaven so brightH
Its glow could ne'er impartI
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Young loves all gently hovering roundJ
Their souls as yet had never boundJ
In soft and rosy chainsK
No feeling muse had sought to raiseL
Their bosoms with ennobling laysL
Or sweet harmonious strainsK
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Around each other lovinglyB
No garlands then entwinedM
The sorrowing springs fled toward the skyA
And left the earth behindM
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From out the sea Aurora roseN
With none to hail her thenO
The sun unhailed at daylight's closeP
In ocean sank againO
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In forests wild man went astrayQ
Misled by Luna's cloudy rayQ
He bore an iron yokeR
He pined not for the stars on highA
With yearning for a deityB
No tears in torrents brokeR
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But see from out the deep blue oceanC
Fair Venus springs with gentle motionC
The graceful Naiad's smiling bandS
Conveys her to the gladdened strandS
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A May like youthful magic powerT
Entwines like morning's twilight hourT
Around that form of godlike birthU
The charms of air sea heaven and earthU
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The day's sweet eye begins to bloomV
Across the forest's midnight gloomV
Narcissuses their balm distillingW
The path her footstep treads are fillingW
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A song of love sweet PhilomelB
Soon carolled through the groveX
The streamlet as it murmuring fellB
Discoursed of naught but loveY
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Pygmalion Happy one BeholdZ
Life's glow pervades thy marble coldZ
Oh LOVE thou conqueror all divineD
Embrace each happy child of thineD
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By love are blest the gods on highA
Frail man becomes a deityB
When love to him is givenC
'Tis love that makes the heavens shineD
With hues more radiant more divineD
And turns dull earth to heavenC
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The gods their days forever spendA2
In banquets bright that have no endA2
In one voluptuous morning dreamB2
And quaff the nectar's golden streamB2
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Enthroned in awful majestyB
Kronion wields the bolt on highA
In abject fear Olympus rocksC2
When wrathfully he shakes his locksC2
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To other gods he leaves his throneG
And fills disguised as earth's frail sonC
The grove with mournful numbersD2
The thunders rest beneath his feetE2
And lulled by Leda's kisses sweetE2
The Giant Slayer slumbersD2
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Through the boundless realms of lightH
Phoebus' golden reins so brightH
Guide his horses white as snowF2
While his darts lay nations lowF2
But when love and harmonyB
Fill his breast how willinglyB
Ceases Phoebus then to heedG2
Rattling dart and snow white steedG2
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See Before Kronion's spouseD2
Every great immortal bowsD2
Proudly soar the peacock pairH2
As her chariot throne they bearH2
While she decks with crown of mightH
Her ambrosial tresses brightH
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Beauteous princess ah with fearI2
Quakes before thy splendor loveY
Seeking as he ventures nearI2
With his power thy breast to moveJ2
Soon from her immortal throneG
Heaven's great queen must fain descendA2
And in prayer for beauty's zoneG
To the heart enchainer bendA2
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By love are blest the gods on highA
Frail man becomes a deityB
When love to him is givenC
'Tis love that makes the heavens shineD
With hues more radiant more divineD
And turns dull earth to heavenC
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'Tis love illumes the realms of nightH
For Orcus dark obeys his mightH
And bows before his magic spellB
All kindly looks the king of hellB
At Ceres' daughter's smile so brightH
Yes love illumes the realms of nightH
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In hell were heard with heavenly soundJ
Holding in chains its warder boundJ
Thy lays O Thracian oneC
A gentler doom dread Minos passedK2
While down his cheeks the tears coursed fastK2
And e'en around Megaera's faceD2
The serpents twined in fond embraceD2
The lashes' work seemed doneC
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Driven by Orpheus' lyre awayQ
The vulture left his giant preyQ
With gentler motion rolled alongL2
Dark Lethe and Cocytus' riverT
Enraptured Thracian by thy songL2
And love its burden was foreverT
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By love are blest the gods on highA
Frail man becomes a deityB
When love to him is givenC
'Tis love that makes the heavens shineD
With hues more radiant more divineD
And turns dull earth to heavenC
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Wherever Nature's sway extendsD2
The fragrant balm of love descendsD2
His golden pinions quiverT
If 'twere not Venus' eye that gleamsD2
Upon me in the moon's soft beamsD2
In sunlit hill or riverT
If 'twere not Venus smiles on meB
From yonder bright and starry seaB
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Not stars not sun not moonbeams sweetE2
Could make my heart with rapture beatE2
'Tis love alone that smilinglyB
Peers forth from Nature's blissful eyeA
As from a mirror everT
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Love bids the silvery streamlet rollB
More gently as it sighs alongL2
And breathes a living feeling soulB
In Philomel's sweet plaintive songL2
'Tis love alone that fills the airH2
With streams from Nature's lute so fairH2
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Thou wisdom with the glance of fireT
Thou mighty goddess now retireM2
Love's power thou now must feelB
To victor proud to monarch highA
Thou ne'er hast knelt in slaveryB
To love thou now must kneelB
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Who taught thee boldly how to climbN2
The steep but starry path sublimeN2
And reach the seats immortalB
Who rent the mystic veil in twainO2
And showed thee the Elysian plainO2
Beyond death's gloomy portalB
If love had beckoned not from highA
Had we gained immortalityB
If love had not inflamed each thoughtP2
Had we the master spirit soughtP2
'Tis love that guides the soul alongL2
To Nature's Father's heavenly throneG
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By love are blest the gods on highA
Frail man becomes a deityB
When love to him is givenC
'Tis love that makes the heavens shineD
With hues more radiant more divineD
And turns dull earth to heavenC

Friedrich Schiller



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