The Misanthrope Reclaimed - Act Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEAFGHIJKLMNOPQRQS TUVGWTQXYZA2B2FBC2D2 D2E2F2G2H2ZI2J2K2L2M 2D2N2O2P2MD2 ZQ2 R2 K2S2J2M2T2 U2 D2D2V2W2X2CZY2T2M2Z2 A3 U2 B3D2C3D2D3E3F3A3G3H3 D2I3N2J3D2FJ2K3L3M3D 2WD2 Z C3T2D2CD2 N3 C3O3D2WAD2CD2D2P3Q3R 3D2D2O2D2M2D2S3BT2D2 D2 R2D2D2D2S3T3D2U3V3C D2 AA O3 ZZCCW3W3N2N2X3X3S2S2 O3 O3O3V3V3D2D2AACCS2S2 Y3 D2 D2 V3D2C3O3V3CZ3 C V3CA4V3 D2 V3D2MB4M2C4V3N2CS2D2 C D2 D2 D2M2V3CCV3W3V3D2C3D2 D4 C D2D2AD2 D2 CAE4YD4 D2 C V3 M2D2 C D2D2D2I3I3D3 V3 V3D2V3O3I3D2I3V3C C D2V3I3ZL2FV3D2CF4D2A D2D2V3D2D2V3D2D2M2CG 4V3CV3D2CG4D2CH4I3M2 CC V3 D2I3CC D2 V3 CCCCCC D2X3D2X3 CCCCCC D2

Scene I A peak of the Alps Werner alone Time morning	A
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Werner	B
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How gloriously beautiful is earth	C
In these her quiet unfrequented haunts	D
To which except the timid chamois' foot	E
Or venturous hunter's or the eagle's wing	A
Naught from beneath ascends As yet the sun	F
But darts his earliest rays of golden light	G
Upon the summits of the tallest peaks	H
Which robed in clouds and capped with glittering ice	I
Soar proudly up and beam and blaze aloft	J
As if they would claim kindred with the stars	K
And they may claim such kindred for there is	L
Within around and over them the same	M
Supreme eternal all creating spirit	N
Which glows and burns in every beaming orb	O
That circles in immeasurable space	P
Far as the eye can trace the mountain's crest	Q
On either hand a gorgeous varied mass	R
Of glowing cloud formed ranges are at rest	Q
Reflecting back in every hue and tint	S
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Purple and crimson orange and bright gold	T
The sunny smile with which Morn hails the world	U
Beneath me all is quiet yet and calm	V
For the dim shadow of the silent night	G
Still rests upon the valley still the flock	W
Sleeps undisturbed within the guarded fold	T
The lark yet slumbers in her lowly nest	Q
The dew hangs heavy upon leaf and blade	X
The gray mist still o'erveils the unruffled lake	Y
And all is tranquil as an infant's sleep	Z
Tranquil around me but not so within	A2
For in my breast a thousand restless thoughts	B2
Conflict in wild chaotical confusion	F
Thoughts of long bygone years and things that were	B
But are no more and thoughts that sternly strive	C2
To grapple with the mysteries I late	D2
Have looked upon for I since yesternight	D2
Have traversed the wide sea of space that rolls	E2
Between the shores of this and other worlds	F2
Have gazed upon and scanned those worlds or shades	G2
That wear the lineaments of such have seen	H2
The damned in their own place and marked the deep	Z
Terrific retribution Error brings	I2
To such as are her votaries in life	J2
And now I feel how baseless was my hope	K2
That Peace the solitary boon I crave	L2
Might spring from knowledge Tis a fatal tree	M2
Which ever hath borne bitter fruit since first	D2
'Twas set in Paradise But I must seek	N2
The cottage of some honest mountaineer	O2
Who may afford me nurture and repose	P2
For I am weary both in mind and frame	M
Exit	D2
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Scene II A chamber in the cottage of Manuel Albert asleep	Z
Rebecca standing by his couch	Q2
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Rebecca	R2
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My boy my beautiful my dearest hope	K2
The garner where my trust of future joy	S2
Is treasured Heaven bless thee May thy life	J2
If it seem good to Him who gave it be	M2
Blest to the fulness of a mother's prayer	T2
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She stoops to kiss him and continues	U2
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How well his sleep portrays a quiet mind	D2
The embodied image of a sunny day	D2
A day without a cloud whose only voices	V2
Arise from sighing airs and whispering leaves	W2
And tell tale brooks that of their banks beseech	X2
A gift a wreath of their sweet flowers wherewith	C
To soothe the angry Geni of the deep	Z
And free glad birds that flit from bough to bough	Y2
And ring their songs of love in the clear air	T2
Till heaven is filled with gushing melody	M2
And the all glowing horizon becomes	Z2
A thing of life whose breath is sweetest music	A3
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Kisses him again and continues	U2
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His brow to me is as a spotless page	B3
Whereon is traced the story of my first	D2
And only love the bright and holy dream	C3
That stole into my bosom when beside	D2
The crystal stream that threads a neighbouring vale	D3
I and his father watched our fathers' flocks	E3
And he would lay aside his shepherd's pipe	F3
And in low words far sweeter than its music	A3
Talk of the sun and stars and gentle moon	G3
The earth and all its loveliness the trees	H3
And shrubs and flowers how these were all pervaded	D2
And quickened by the spirit of deep love	I3
Till by the frequent blush that tinged my cheek	N2
The light that would break from my downcast eyes	J3
And the quick beat of my too happy heart	D2
Emboldened he poured out his own pure passion	F
On my enchanted ear Since then my life	J2
Has had no eras days and months and years	K3
Have all gone by uncounted in the full	L3
Deep fervent soul sufficing happiness	M3
Of all I prayed for panted for obtained	D2
But I must rouse him it is time his flock	W
Should leave the fold and	D2
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The boy starts and murmurs in his sleep	Z
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Down by yonder stream	C3
Where the green willows cluster thickest there	T2
They dwell 'Tis scarce so far as I could cast	D2
A pebble from my sling Seek it and they	C
Will minister to thee what thou mayest need	D2
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He awakes and recognising his mother exclaims	N3
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Ah mother I have dreamed so strange a dream	C3
So strange and yet so palpable that I	O3
Believed it a reality Methought	D2
As closely followed by my bleating flock	W
I climbed the rugged mountain side where spring	A
Our greenest pastures singing as I went	D2
I met a lonely wanderer in my way	C
Of brow so pale and eye so darkly sad	D2
That my own heart to sadness little used	D2
Grew heavy at the sight and he seemed worn	P3
And very weary not so much with toil	Q3
As by some hidden inward strife of soul	R3
Which even then seemed raging in his breast	D2
He stayed to question me where he might find	D2
The cottage of some honest mountaineer	O2
Where he might crave the boons of rest and food	D2
And mindful of the lesson taught by thee	M2
To give the hungry bread the weary rest	D2
I pointed him to where our cottage stands	S3
Assuring him that thou and my sweet sister	B
Fair as aught earthly and as pure as fair	T2
Would entertain him as a welcome guest	D2
And so we parted	D2
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Rebecca	R2
Thou didst well to mind	D2
The lesson I so often have repeated	D2
It is our first of duties to give aid	D2
To those who beg for succour at our hands	S3
For we ourselves whatever we possess	T3
Are but the stewards of the bounteous Lord	D2
Who giveth to his creatures all good gifts	U3
But it is time that thou shouldst seek the hills	V3
So take thy crook and pipe and hie away	C
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Exeunt	D2
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Scene III The side of a mountain Werner descending	A
Enter a shepherd boy followed by his flock singing	A
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I	O3
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When the Morning starts up from her couch on the deep	Z
Where through the dim night hours she pillows her sleep	Z
I start from my slumbers and hie me away	C
Where the white torrent dashes its feathery spray	C
I quaff the fresh stream as it bursts from the hill	W3
I pluck the fresh flowers that spring by the rill	W3
I watch the gray clouds as they curl round the peak	N2
That rises high over them barren and bleak	N2
And I think how the worldling who courts fortune's smile	X3
In his heart like that peak may be lonely the while	X3
And then my own heart sings aloud in its joy	S2
That Heaven has made me a free shepherd boy	S2
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II	O3
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When the horn of the hunter resounds from on high	O3
Where the tall giant ice cliffs ire piled to the sky	O3
Where shunning the verdure of valleys and dells	V3
The brave eagle builds and the shy chamois dwells	V3
I list to its gay tones as by me they float	D2
And I echo them merrily back note for note	D2
With the wild bird a song full as gladsome I sing	A
I crown me with flowers and sit a crowned king	A
My flock are my subjects my dog my vizier	C
And my sceptre a mild one the crook that I bear	C
No wants to perplex me no cares to annoy	S2
I live an unenvying free shepherdboy	S2
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Werner meets and addresses him	Y3
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Thou'rt merry lad	D2
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Albert	D2
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Ay I have cause to be so	V3
Aside	D2
It is the wanderer of my last night's dream	C3
The same pale brow and darkly mournful eye	O3
And weary gait and melancholy voice	V3
If he seeks friendly guidance food or shelter	C
He shall not want them long	Z3
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Werner	C
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So thou hast cause	V3
For merriment then thou perchance hast wealth	C
Broad fruitful lands and tenements and all	A4
Which wealth confers	V3
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Albert	D2
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Nay I have none of these	V3
And yet have more than all which thou hast named	D2
I have a father whose unsullied name	M
No tongue has ever spoken with reproach	B4
A mother whose idea is with me	M2
A holy thing and a dear sister who	C4
Is fair as pure and pure as is the snow	V3
Upon the summit of the tallest peak	N2
Of these my native mountains I have health	C
And strength and food and raiment and employ	S2
And should I not then have a joyous heart	D2
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Werner	C
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Yea verily thou shouldst	D2
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Albert	D2
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And there is yet	D2
Among the blessings Heaven has given to me	M2
One which I have not named to thee it is	V3
An humble home whose hospitable door	C
Was never closed against the wayfarer	C
If thou hast need of aught which it affords	V3
Seek it my mother and my sister will	W3
Delight to minister unto thy wants	V3
There where the wide armed willows cluster thickest	D2
Upon the green banks of yon crystal stream	C3
Our cottage stands The path to it is short	D2
And easily traversed so now farewell	D4
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Werner	C
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Stay yet a moment That which thou hast proffered	D2
Is what I sought Thou hast a noble heart	D2
One fit to fill the bosom of a king	A
I fain would give thee guerdon here is gold	D2
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Albert	D2
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Keep it for those who covet it If ever	C
Thou meet'st with one bowed down by suffering	A
Who calls on thee for pity and relief	E4
Then if thou heed'st his prayer for my sake	Y
I shall be well repaid Again farewell	D4
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Exeunt	D2
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Scene IV After a lapse of time A rustic arbour near the cottage of Manuel Enter Rose and Werner	C
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Rose	V3
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Nay let my silent blushes plead with thee	M2
That thou wilt be as silent	D2
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Werner	C
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Rather let	D2
My ardent love which will not be repressed	D2
Plead with thee for acceptance of my suit	D2
For I do love thee with such passionate love	I3
That life itself if weighed against that love	I3
Were scarce a feather in the scale	D3
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Rose	V3
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Alas	V3
I'm but a simple shepherd's simple child	D2
Unused to courtly speeches and they say	V3
That in the world thy name and rank are high	O3
And that when such as thou do proffer love	I3
And faith to lowly maidens 'tis a jest	D2
And that when they have won our honest love	I3
They cast it from them with unpitying hands	V3
As idly as they would a withered flower	C
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Werner	C
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Nay maiden let me tell thee of the past	D2
Let me lay bare my heart beneath thy gaze	V3
And thou wilt pity if thou canst not love	I3
I loved in youth with love as fond and deep	Z
As ever made the heart of man its slave	L2
But ere my hopes could ripen to fruition	F
Death came and made my worshipped one his prize	V3
And though my peace departed when she died	D2
Yet I was proud and would not bond to sorrow	C
But with calm brow and eye and smiling lip	F4
I mingled with the giddy thoughtless world	D2
Seeking from out its varied realms to wring	A
Some recompense for that which I had lost	D2
Wealth fame and power I sought for and obtained	D2
Yet found them only gilded mockeries	V3
The paths of hidden knowledge I essayed	D2
And trod their mazy windings till they led	D2
My footsteps whither I may not disclose	V3
But all availed me nothing still my heart	D2
Ached with the dreary void lost love had made	D2
Ached ever till that void was filled by thee	M2
Since first fate led me to your kindly door	C
Three times the moon with full orbed light hath shone	G4
Thrice thirty times with song of merry birds	V3
And breath of fragrance Morn has blest the earth	C
And all its dwellers with her radiant presence	V3
Thrice thirty times with star bound brow dim Night	D2
Hath kept her tearful watch above the earth	C
And every time the full orb'd moon hath shone	G4
And every time the merry Morn hath smiled	D2
And every time dim Night with star bound brow	C
Above the earth hath kept her tearful watch	H4
My heart has added to its store of love	I3
Its pure deep fervent passionate love for thee	M2
By all my hopes of heaven my words are true	C
Dost thou not pity now	C
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Rose	V3
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Ay more My heart	D2
And its full treasury of maiden love	I3
Never before surrendered to another	C
I pledge to thee as thine for evermore	C
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Exeunt	D2
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An Aerial Chorus	V3
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Seek the dell and seek the bower	C
Pluck the bud and pluck the flower	C
Search for buds of sweetest breath	C
Search for flowers of brightest hue	C
Fit to weave the bridal wreath	C
Of a maid so fair and true	C
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She has bowed the haughty heart	D2
Won the stubborn will from guile	X3
With no aid of other art	D2
Than the sweet spell of her smile	X3
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Seek the dell and seek the bower	C
Pluck the bud and pluck the flower	C
Search for buds of sweetest breath	C
Search for flowers of brightest hue	C
Fit to weave the bridal wreath	C
Of a maid so fair and true	C
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Exeunt	D2

George W. Sands

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