Nuremberg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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In the valley of the Pegnitz where across broad meadow landsA
Rise the blue Franconian mountains Nuremberg the ancient standsA
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Quaint old town of toil and traffic quaint old town of art and songB
Memories haunt thy pointed gables like the rooks that round them throngB
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Memories of the Middle Ages when the emperors rough and boldC
Had their dwelling in thy castle time defying centuries oldC
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And thy brave and thrifty burghers boasted in their uncouth rhymeD
That their great imperial city stretched its hand through every climeD
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In the court yard of the castle bound with many an iron bandE
Stands the mighty linden planted by Queen Cunigunde's handE
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On the square the oriel window where in old heroic daysF
Sat the poet Melchior singing Kaiser Maximilian's praiseF
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Everywhere I see around me rise the wondrous world of ArtG
Fountains wrought with richest sculpture standing in the common martG
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And above cathedral doorways saints and bishops carved in stoneH
By a former age commissioned as apostles to our ownH
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In the church of sainted Sebald sleeps enshrined his holy dustI
And in bronze the Twelve Apostles guard from age to age their trustI
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In the church of sainted Lawrence stands a pix of sculpture rareJ
Like the foamy sheaf of fountains rising through the painted airJ
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Here when Art was still religion with a simple reverent heartG
ived and labored Albrecht D uuml rer the Evangelist of ArtG
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Hence in silence and in sorrow toiling still with busy handE
Like an emigrant he wandered seeking for the Better LandE
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Emigravit is the inscription on the tomb stone where he liesK
Dead he is not but departed for the artist never diesK
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Fairer seems the ancient city and the sunshine seems more fairJ
That he once has trod its pavement that he once has breathed its airJ
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Through these streets so broad and stately these obscure and dismal lanesL
Walked of yore the Mastersingers chanting rude poetic strainsL
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From remote and sunless suburbs came they to the friendly guildM
Building nests in Fame's great temple as in spouts the swallows buildM
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As the weaver plied the shuttle wove he too the mystic rhymeD
And the smith his iron measures hammered to the anvil's chimeD
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Thanking God whose boundless wisdom makes the flowers of poesy bloomD
In the forge's dust and cinders in the tissues of the loomD
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Here Hans Sachs the cobbler poet laureate of the gentle craftN
Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters in huge folios sang and laughedN
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But his house is now an ale house with a nicely sanded floorO
And a garland in the window and his face above the doorO
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Painted by some humble artist as in Adam Puschman's songB
As the old man gray and dove like with his great beard white and longB
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And at night the swart mechanic comes to drown his cark and careJ
Quaffing ale from pewter tankards in the master's antique chairJ
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Vanished is the ancient splendor and before my dreamy eyeP
Wave these mingled shapes and figures like a faded tapestryQ
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Not thy Councils not thy Kaisers win for thee the world's regardR
But thy painter Albrecht D uuml rer and Hans Sachs thy cobbler bardR
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Thus O Nuremberg a wanderer from a region far awayS
As he paced thy streets and court yards sang in thought his careless layS
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Gathering from the pavement's crevice as a floweret of the soilT
The nobility of labor the long pedigree of toilT

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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