The Walk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEDFCCDGDHIJKLCC KMFNCCOFDP FCJQQRCSCTDGUCJC DVWQXCQCYZAG AA2B2C2CD2DFE2F2IG2E 2PB2H2CI2CC CJ2CK2CL2CM2CCCGCN2C O2FCP2Q2XR2B2S2FJ2T2 CJU2CG DV2CW2DX2KY2CZ2P2A3K G2CCDB3Hail to thee mountain beloved with thy glittering purple dyed summit | A |
Hail to thee also fair sun looking so lovingly on | B |
Thee too I hail thou smiling plain and ye murmuring lindens | C |
Ay and the chorus so glad cradled on yonder high boughs | C |
Thee too peaceably azure in infinite measure extending | D |
Round the dusky hued mount over the forest so green | E |
Round about me who now from my chamber's confinement escaping | D |
And from vain frivolous talk gladly seek refuge with thee | F |
Through me to quicken me runs the balsamic stream of thy breezes | C |
While the energetical light freshens the gaze as it thirsts | C |
Bright o'er the blooming meadow the changeable colors are gleaming | D |
But the strife full of charms in its own grace melts away | G |
Freely the plain receives me with carpet far away reaching | D |
Over its friendly green wanders the pathway along | H |
Round me is humming the busy bee and with pinion uncertain | I |
Hovers the butterfly gay over the trefoil's red flower | J |
Fiercely the darts of the sun fall on me the zephyr is silent | K |
Only the song of the lark echoes athwart the clear air | L |
Now from the neighboring copse comes a roar and the tops of the alders | C |
Bend low down in the wind dances the silvery grass | C |
Night ambrosial circles me round in the coolness so fragrant | K |
Greets me a beauteous roof formed by the beeches' sweet shade | M |
In the depths of the wood the landscape suddenly leaves me | F |
And a serpentine path guides up my footsteps on high | N |
Only by stealth can the light through the leafy trellis of branches | C |
Sparingly pierce and the blue smilingly peeps through the boughs | C |
But in a moment the veil is rent and the opening forest | O |
Suddenly gives back the day's glittering brightness to me | F |
Boundlessly seems the distance before my gaze to be stretching | D |
And in a purple tinged hill terminates sweetly the world | P |
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Deep at the foot of the mountain that under me falls away steeply | F |
Wanders the greenish hued stream looking like glass as it flows | C |
Endlessly under me see I the ether and endlessly o'er | J |
Giddily look I above shudderingly look I below | Q |
But between the infinite height and the infinite hollow | Q |
Safely the wanderer moves over a well guarded path | R |
Smilingly past me are flying the banks all teeming with riches | C |
And the valley so bright boasts of its industry glad | S |
See how yonder hedgerows that sever the farmer's possessions | C |
Have by Demeter been worked into the tapestried plain | T |
Kindly decree of the law of the Deity mortal sustaining | D |
Since from the brazen world love vanished forever away | G |
But in freer windings the measured pastures are traversed | U |
Now swallowed up in the wood now climbing up to the hills | C |
By a glimmering streak the highway that knits lands together | J |
Over the smooth flowing stream quietly glide on the rafts | C |
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Ofttimes resound the bells of the flocks in the fields that seem living | D |
And the shepherd's lone song wakens the echo again | V |
Joyous villages crown the stream in the copse others vanish | W |
While from the back of the mount others plunge wildly below | Q |
Man still lives with the land in neighborly friendship united | X |
And round his sheltering roof calmly repose still his fields | C |
Trustingly climbs the vine high over the low reaching window | Q |
While round the cottage the tree circles its far stretching boughs | C |
Happy race of the plain Not yet awakened to freedom | Y |
Thou and thy pastures with joy share in the limited law | Z |
Bounded thy wishes all are by the harvest's peaceable circuit | A |
And thy lifetime is spent e'en as the task of the day | G |
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But what suddenly hides the beauteous view A strange spirit | A |
Over the still stranger plain spreads itself quickly afar | A2 |
Coyly separates now what scarce had lovingly mingled | B2 |
And 'tis the like that alone joins itself on to the like | C2 |
Orders I see depicted the haughty tribes of the poplars | C |
Marshalled in regular pomp stately and beauteous appear | D2 |
All gives token of rule and choice and all has its meaning | D |
'Tis this uniform plan points out the Ruler to me | F |
Brightly the glittering domes in far away distance proclaim him | E2 |
Out of the kernel of rocks rises the city's high wall | F2 |
Into the desert without the fauns of the forest are driven | I |
But by devotion is lent life more sublime to the stone | G2 |
Man is brought into nearer union with man and around him | E2 |
Closer more actively wakes swifter moves in him the world | P |
See the emulous forces in fiery conflict are kindled | B2 |
Much they effect when they strive more they effect when they join | H2 |
Thousands of hands by one spirit are moved yet in thousands of bosoms | C |
Beats one heart all alone by but one feeling inspired | I2 |
Beats for their native land and glows for their ancestors' precepts | C |
Here on the well beloved spot rest now time honored bones | C |
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Down from the heavens descends the blessed troop of immortals | C |
In the bright circle divine making their festal abode | J2 |
Granting glorious gifts they appear and first of all Ceres | C |
Offers the gift of the plough Hermes the anchor brings next | K2 |
Bacchus the grape and Minerva the verdant olive tree's branches | C |
Even his charger of war brings there Poseidon as well | L2 |
Mother Cybele yokes to the pole of her chariot the lions | C |
And through the wide open door comes as a citizen in | M2 |
Sacred stones 'Tis from ye that proceed humanity's founders | C |
Morals and arts ye sent forth e'en to the ocean's far isles | C |
'Twas at these friendly gates that the law was spoken by sages | C |
In their Penates' defence heroes rushed out to the fray | G |
On the high walls appeared the mothers embracing their infants | C |
Looking after the march till the distance 'twas lost | N2 |
Then in prayer they threw themselves down at the deities' altars | C |
Praying for triumph and fame praying for your safe return | O2 |
Honor and triumph were yours but naught returned save your glory | F |
And by a heart touching stone told are your valorous deeds | C |
Traveller when thou com'st to Sparta proclaim to the people | P2 |
That thou hast seen us lie here as by the law we were bid | Q2 |
Slumber calmly ye loved ones for sprinkled o'er by your life blood | X |
Flourish the olive trees there joyously sprouts the good seed | R2 |
In its possessions exulting industry gladly is kindled | B2 |
And from the sedge of the stream smilingly signs the blue god | S2 |
Crushingly falls the axe on the tree the Dryad sighs sadly | F |
Down from the crest of the mount plunges the thundering load | J2 |
Winged by the lever the stone from the rocky crevice is loosened | T2 |
Into the mountain's abyss boldly the miner descends | C |
Mulciber's anvil resounds with the measured stroke of the hammer | J |
Under the fist's nervous blow spurt out the sparks of the steel | U2 |
Brilliantly twines the golden flax round the swift whirling spindles | C |
Through the strings of the yarn whizzes the shuttle away | G |
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Far in the roads the pilot calls and the vessels are waiting | D |
That to the foreigner's land carry the produce of home | V2 |
Others gladly approach with the treasures of far distant regions | C |
High on the mast's lofty head flutters the garland of mirth | W2 |
See how yon markets those centres of life and of gladness are swarming | D |
Strange confusion of tongues sounds in the wondering ear | X2 |
On to the pile the wealth of the earth is heaped by the merchant | K |
All that the sun's scorching rays bring forth on Africa's soil | Y2 |
All that Arabia prepares that the uttermost Thule produces | C |
High with heart gladdening stores fills Amalthea her horn | Z2 |
Fortune wedded to talent gives birth there to children immortal | P2 |
Suckled in liberty's arms flourish the arts there of joy | A3 |
With the image of life the eyes by the sculptor are ravished | K |
And by the chisel inspired speaks e'en the sensitive stone | G2 |
Skies artificial repose on slender Ionian columns | C |
And a Pantheon includes all that Olympus contains | C |
Light as the rainbow's spring through the air as the dart from the bowstring | D |
Leaps th | B3 |
Friedrich Schiller
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