The Winter Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG EHEH EIEI JKLK MNMN OPOP NQNQ RSRI ETET| Farewell the beauteous sun is sinking fast | A |
| The moon lifts up her head | B |
| Farewell mute night o'er earth's wide round at last | A |
| Her darksome raven wing has spread | B |
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| Across the wintry plain no echoes float | C |
| Save from the rock's deep womb | D |
| The murmuring streamlet and the screech owl's note | C |
| Arising from the forest's gloom | D |
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| The fish repose within the watery deeps | E |
| The snail draws in his head | B |
| The dog beneath the table calmly sleeps | E |
| My wife is slumbering in her bed | B |
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| A hearty welcome to ye brethren mine | F |
| Friends of my life's young spring | G |
| Perchance around a flask of Rhenish wine | F |
| Ye're gathered now in joyous ring | G |
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| The brimming goblet's bright and purple beams | E |
| Mirror the world with joy | H |
| And pleasure from the golden grape juice gleams | E |
| Pleasure untainted by alloy | H |
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| Concealed behind departed years your eyes | E |
| Find roses now alone | I |
| And as the summer tempest quickly flies | E |
| Your heavy sorrows too are flown | I |
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| From childish sports to e'en the doctor's hood | J |
| The book of life ye thumb | K |
| And reckon o'er in light and joyous mood | L |
| Your toils in the gymnasium | K |
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| Ye count the oaths that Terence may he ne'er | M |
| Though buried calmly slumber | N |
| Caused you despite Minelli's notes to swear | M |
| Count your wry faces without number | N |
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| How when the dread examinations came | O |
| The boy with terror shook | P |
| How when the rector had pronounced his name | O |
| The sweat streamed down upon his book | P |
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| All this is now involved in mist forever | N |
| The boy is now a man | Q |
| And Frederick wiser grown discloses never | N |
| What little Fritz once loved to plan | Q |
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| At length a doctor one's declared to be | R |
| A regimental one | S |
| And then and not too soon discover we | R |
| That plans soap bubbles are alone | I |
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| Blow on blow on and let the bubbles rise | E |
| If but this heart remain | T |
| And if a German laurel as the prize | E |
| Of song 'tis given me to gain | T |
Friedrich Schiller
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