To Minna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EBEBFGFG BHBHIJIJ KGKGLLLL BMBMNJNJ KGKGOGPG| Do I dream can I trust to my eye | A |
| My sight sure some vapor must cover | B |
| Or there did my Minna pass by | A |
| My Minna and knew not her lover | B |
| On the arm of the coxcomb she crossed | C |
| Well the fan might its zephyr bestow | D |
| Herself in her vanity lost | C |
| That wanton my Minna Ah no | D |
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| In the gifts of my love she was dressed | E |
| My plumes o'er her summer hat quiver | B |
| The ribbons that flaunt in her breast | E |
| Might bid her remember the giver | B |
| And still do they bloom on thy bosom | F |
| The flowerets I gathered for thee | G |
| Still as fresh is the leaf of each blossom | F |
| 'Tis the heart that has faded from me | G |
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| Go and take then the incense they tender | B |
| Go the one that adored thee forget | H |
| Go thy charms to the feigner surrender | B |
| In my scorn is my comforter yet | H |
| Go for thee with what trust and belief | I |
| There beat not ignobly a heart | J |
| That has strength yet to strive with the grief | I |
| To have worshipped the trifler thou art | J |
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| Thy beauty thy heart hath betrayed | K |
| Thy beauty shame Minna to thee | G |
| To morrow its glory will fade | K |
| And its roses all withered will be | G |
| The swallows that swarm in the sun | L |
| Will fly when the north winds awaken | L |
| The false ones thine autumn will shun | L |
| For whom thou the true hast forsaken | L |
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| 'Mid the wrecks of the charms in December | B |
| I see thee alone in decay | M |
| And each spring shall but bid thee remember | B |
| How brief for thyself was the May | M |
| Then they who so wantonly flock | N |
| To the rapture thy kiss can impart | J |
| Shall scoff at thy winter and mock | N |
| Thy beauty as wrecked as thy heart | J |
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| Thy beauty thy heart hath betrayed | K |
| Thy beauty shame Minna to thee | G |
| To morrow its glory will fade | K |
| And its roses all withered will be | G |
| O what scorn for thy desolate years | O |
| Shall I feel God forbid it in me | G |
| How bitter will then be the tears | P |
| Shed Minna O Minna for thee | G |
Friedrich Schiller
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