To A Moralist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK| Are the sports of our youth so displeasing | A |
| Is love but the folly you say | B |
| Benumbed with the winter and freezing | A |
| You scold at the revels of May | B |
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| For you once a nymph had her charms | C |
| And Oh when the waltz you were wreathing | A |
| All Olympus embraced in your arms | C |
| All its nectar in Julia's breathing | A |
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| If Jove at that moment had hurled | D |
| The earth in some other rotation | E |
| Along with your Julia whirled | D |
| You had felt not the shock of creation | E |
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| Learn this that philosophy beats | F |
| Sure time with the pulse quick or slow | G |
| As the blood from the heyday retreats | F |
| But it cannot make gods of us No | G |
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| It is well icy reason should thaw | H |
| In the warm blood of mirth now and then | I |
| The gods for themselves have a law | H |
| Which they never intended for men | I |
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| The spirit is bound by the ties | J |
| Of its gaoler the flesh if I can | K |
| Not reach as an angel the skies | J |
| Let me feel on the earth as a man | K |
Friedrich Schiller
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