Trifles. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC D EF G HI H JA D KA L AH M NO P QR| THE EPIC HEXAMETER | A |
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| Giddily onward it bears thee with resistless impetuous billows | B |
| Naught but the ocean and air seest thou before or behind | C |
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| THE DISTICH | D |
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| In the hexameter rises the fountain's watery column | E |
| In the pentameter sweet falling in melody down | F |
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| THE EIGHT LINE STANZA | G |
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| Stanza by love thou'rt created by love all tender and yearning | H |
| Thrice dost thou bashfully fly thrice dost with longing return | I |
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| THE OBELISK | H |
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| On a pedestal lofty the sculptor in triumph has raised me | J |
| Stand thou spake he and I stand proudly and joyfully here | A |
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| THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH | D |
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| Fear not the builder exclaimed the rainbow that stands in the heavens | K |
| I will extend thee like it into infinity far | A |
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| THE BEAUTIFUL BRIDGE | L |
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| Under me over me hasten the waters the chariots my builder | A |
| Kindly has suffered e'en me over myself too to go | H |
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| THE GATE | M |
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| Let the gate open stand to allure the savage to precepts | N |
| Let it the citizen lead into free nature with joy | O |
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| ST PETER'S | P |
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| If thou seekest to find immensity here thou'rt mistaken | Q |
| For my greatness is meant greater to make thee thyself | R |
Friedrich Schiller
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