Thoughts On The 1st October, 1781 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDD DDDD CFCF GBGB DHDH DIDI JDJD KLKM NAOA DDDD PQPP PCPD DDDD DRDR EBEB| What mean the joyous sounds from yonder vine clad height | A |
| What the exulting Evoe | B |
| Why glows the cheek Whom is't that I with pinions light | A |
| Swinging the lofty Thyrsus see | C |
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| Is it the genius whom the gladsome throng obeys | D |
| Do I his numerous train descry | E |
| In plenty's teeming horn the gifts of heaven he sways | D |
| And reels from very ecstacy | D |
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| See how the golden grape in glorious beauty shines | D |
| Kissed by the earliest morning beams | D |
| The shadow of yon bower how lovingly it signs | D |
| As it with countless blessings teams | D |
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| Ha glad October thou art welcome unto me | C |
| October's first born welcome thou | F |
| Thanks of a purer kind than all who worship thee | C |
| More heartfelt thanks I'm bringing now | F |
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| For thou to me the one whom I have loved so well | G |
| And love with fondness to the grave | B |
| Who merits in my heart forevermore to dwell | G |
| The best of friends in Rieger gave | B |
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| 'Tis true thy breath doth rock the leaves upon the trees | D |
| And sadly make their charms decay | H |
| Gently they fall and swift as morning phantasies | D |
| With those who waken fly away | H |
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| 'Tis true that on thy track the fleecy spoiler hastes | D |
| Who makes all Nature's chords resound | I |
| With discord dull and turns the plains and groves to wastes | D |
| So that they sadly mourn around | I |
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| See how the gloomy forms of years as on they roll | J |
| Each joyous banquet overthrows | D |
| When in uplifted hand from out the foaming bowl | J |
| Joy's noble purple brightly flows | D |
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| See how they disappear when friends sweet converse hold | K |
| And loving wander arm in arm | L |
| And to revenge themselves on winter's north wind cold | K |
| Upon each other's breasts grow warm | M |
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| And when spring's children smile upon us once again | N |
| When all the youthful splendor bright | A |
| When each melodious note of each sweet rapturous strain | O |
| Awakens with it each delight | A |
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| How joyous then the stream that our whole soul pervades | D |
| What life from out our glances pours | D |
| Sweet Philomela's song resounding through the glades | D |
| Ourselves our youthful strength restores | D |
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| Oh may this whisper breathe let Rieger bear in mind | P |
| The storm by which in age we're bent | Q |
| His guardian angel when the evening's star so kind | P |
| Gleams softly from the firmament | P |
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| In silence be he led to yonder thundering height | P |
| And guided be his eye that he | C |
| In valley and on plain may see his friends aright | P |
| And that with growing ecstacy | D |
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| On yonder holy spot when he their number tells | D |
| He may experience friendship's bliss | D |
| Now first unveiled until with pride his bosom swells | D |
| Conscious that all their love is his | D |
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| Then will the distant voice be loudly heard to say | D |
| And G too is a friend of thine | R |
| When silvery locks no more around his temples play | D |
| G still will be a friend of thine | R |
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| E'en yonder and now in his eye the crystal tear | E |
| Will gleam e'en yonder he will love | B |
| Love thee too when his heart in yonder spring like sphere | E |
| Linked on to thine can rapture prove | B |
Friedrich Schiller
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