To A Young Friend Devoting Himself To Philosophy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFDDGH| Severe the proof the Grecian youth was doomed to undergo | A |
| Before he might what lurks beneath the Eleusinia know | A |
| Art thou prepared and ripe the shrine the inner shrine to win | B |
| Where Pallas guards from vulgar eyes the mystic prize within | B |
| Knowest thou what bars thy way how dear the bargain thou dost make | C |
| When but to buy uncertain good sure good thou dost forsake | C |
| Feel'st thou sufficient strength to brave the deadliest human fray | D |
| When heart from reason sense from thought shall rend themselves away | D |
| Sufficient valor war with doubt the hydra shape to wage | E |
| And that worst foe within thyself with manly soul engage | E |
| With eyes that keep their heavenly health the innocence of youth | F |
| To guard from every falsehood fair beneath the mask of truth | F |
| Fly if thou canst not trust thy heart to guide thee on the way | D |
| Oh fly the charmed margin ere th' abyss engulf its prey | D |
| Round many a step that seeks the light the shades of midnight close | G |
| But in the glimmering twilight see how safely childhood goes | H |
Friedrich Schiller
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