The Words Of Error Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHIHJJ KLKLMM NONOPP| Three errors there are that forever are found | A |
| On the lips of the good on the lips of the best | B |
| But empty their meaning and hollow their sound | A |
| And slight is the comfort they bring to the breast | B |
| The fruits of existence escape from the clasp | C |
| Of the seeker who strives but those shadows to grasp | C |
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| So long as man dreams of some age in this life | D |
| When the right and the good will all evil subdue | E |
| For the right and the good lead us ever to strife | D |
| And wherever they lead us the fiend will pursue | E |
| And till from the earth borne and stifled at length | F |
| The earth that he touches still gifts him with strength | F |
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| So long as man fancies that fortune will live | G |
| Like a bride with her lover united with worth | H |
| For her favors alas to the mean she will give | I |
| And virtue possesses no title to earth | H |
| That foreigner wanders to regions afar | J |
| Where the lands of her birthright immortally are | J |
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| So long as man dreams that to mortals a gift | K |
| The truth in her fulness of splendor will shine | L |
| The veil of the goddess no earth born may lift | K |
| And all we can learn is to guess and divine | L |
| Dost thou seek in a dogma to prison her form | M |
| The spirit flies forth on the wings of the storm | M |
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| O noble soul fly from delusions like these | N |
| More heavenly belief be it thine to adore | O |
| Where the ear never hearkens the eye never sees | N |
| Meet the rivers of beauty and truth evermore | O |
| Not without thee the streams there the dull seek them No | P |
| Look within thee behold both the fount and the flow | P |
Friedrich Schiller
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