The Golden Legend: Iii. A Street In Strasburg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCDDCEEF GHII FJJKKLL GHII MMNNOOPPPQRR GHII HHSTUUSVVH GHII ELLEWWEXYXYZA2YAAUAU B2B2 AAC2D DD2D2A E2B2 E2 AF2F2A AG2DG2DAAA ADD DAXH2AH2X AAB2I2J2B2XB2AX AAAK2K2AADD AX AA AAXX XXA AAAAAB2B2 AAAAAA A ADDAHXHXDDJJDXDXAAL2 I2I2L2 M2 N2XA AAAXXAA O2O2DP2P2XDDXXXADAA A AI2AX XI2A AAAR| Night | A |
| PRINCE HENRY wandering alone wrapped in a cloak | B |
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| Prince Henry Still is the night The sound of feet | C |
| Has died away from the empty street | C |
| And like an artisan bending down | D |
| His head on his anvil the dark town | D |
| Sleeps with a slumber deep and sweet | C |
| Sleepless and restless I alone | E |
| In the dusk and damp of these wails of stone | E |
| Wander and weep in my remorse | F |
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| Crier of the dead ringing a bell Wake wake | G |
| All ye that sleep | H |
| Pray for the Dead | I |
| Pray for the Dead | I |
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| Prince Henry Hark with what accents loud and hoarse | F |
| This warder on the walls of death | J |
| Sends forth the challenge of his breath | J |
| I see the dead that sleep in the grave | K |
| They rise up and their garments wave | K |
| Dimly and spectral as they rise | L |
| With the light of another world in their eyes | L |
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| Crier of the dead Wake wake | G |
| All ye that sleep | H |
| Pray for the Dead | I |
| Pray for the Dead | I |
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| Prince Henry Why for the dead who are at rest | M |
| Pray for the living in whose breast | M |
| The struggle between right and wrong | N |
| Is raging terrible and strong | N |
| As when good angels war with devils | O |
| This is the Master of the Revels | O |
| Who at Life's flowing feast proposes | P |
| The health of absent friends and pledges | P |
| Not in bright goblets crowned with roses | P |
| And tinkling as we touch their edges | Q |
| But with his dismal tinkling bell | R |
| That mocks and mimics their funeral knell | R |
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| Crier of the dead Wake wake | G |
| All ye that sleep | H |
| Pray for the Dead | I |
| Pray for the Dead | I |
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| Prince Henry Wake not beloved be thy sleep | H |
| Silent as night is and as deep | H |
| There walks a sentinel at thy gate | S |
| Whose heart is heavy and desolate | T |
| And the heavings of whose bosom number | U |
| The respirations of thy slumber | U |
| As if some strange mysterious fate | S |
| Had linked two hearts in one and mine | V |
| Went madly wheeling about thine | V |
| Only with wider and wilder sweep | H |
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| Crier of the dead at a distance Wake wake | G |
| All ye that sleep | H |
| Pray for the Dead | I |
| Pray for the Dead | I |
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| Prince Henry Lo with what depth of blackness thrown | E |
| Against the clouds far up the skies | L |
| The walls of the cathedral rise | L |
| Like a mysterious grove of stone | E |
| With fitful lights and shadows bleeding | W |
| As from behind the moon ascending | W |
| Lights its dim aisles and paths unknown | E |
| The wind is rising but the boughs | X |
| Rise not and fall not with the wind | Y |
| That through their foliage sobs and soughs | X |
| Only the cloudy rack behind | Y |
| Drifting onward wild and ragged | Z |
| Gives to each spire and buttress jagged | A2 |
| A seeming motion undefined | Y |
| Below on the square an armed knight | A |
| Still as a statue and as white | A |
| Sits on his steed and the moonbeams quiver | U |
| Upon the points of his armor bright | A |
| As on the ripples of a river | U |
| He lifts the visor from his cheek | B2 |
| And beckons and makes as he would speak | B2 |
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| Walter the Minnesinger Friend can you tell me where alight | A |
| Thuringia's horsemen for the night | A |
| For I have lingered in the rear | C2 |
| And wander vainly up and down | D |
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| Prince Henry I am a stranger in the town | D |
| As thou art but the voice I hear | D2 |
| Is not a stranger to mine ear | D2 |
| Thou art Walter of the Vogelweid | A |
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| Walter Thou hast guessed rightly and thy name | E2 |
| Is Henry of Hoheneck | B2 |
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| Prince Henry Ay the same | E2 |
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| Walter embracing him Come closer closer to my side | A |
| What brings thee hither What potent charm | F2 |
| Has drawn thee from thy German farm | F2 |
| Into the old Alsatian city | A |
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| Prince Henry A tale of wonder and of pity | A |
| A wretched man almost by stealth | G2 |
| Dragging my body to Salern | D |
| In the vain hope and search for health | G2 |
| And destined never to return | D |
| Already thou hast heard the rest | A |
| But what brings thee thus armed and dight | A |
| In the equipments of a knight | A |
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| Walter Dost thou not see upon my breast | A |
| The cross of the Crusaders shine | D |
| My pathway leads to Palestine | D |
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| Prince Henry Ah would that way were also mine | D |
| O noble poet thou whose heart | A |
| Is like a nest of singing birds | X |
| Rocked on the topmost bough of life | H2 |
| Wilt thou too from our sky depart | A |
| And in the clangor of the strife | H2 |
| Mingle the music of thy words | X |
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| Walter My hopes are high my heart is proud | A |
| And like a trumpet long and loud | A |
| Thither my thoughts all clang and ring | B2 |
| My life is in my hand and lo | I2 |
| I grasp and bend it as a bow | J2 |
| And shoot forth from its trembling string | B2 |
| An arrow that shall be perchance | X |
| Like the arrow of the Israelite king | B2 |
| Shot from the window toward the east | A |
| That of the Lord's deliverance | X |
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| Prince Henry My life alas is what thou seest | A |
| O enviable fate to be | A |
| Strong beautiful and armed like thee | A |
| With lyre and sword with song and steel | K2 |
| A hand to smite a heart to feel | K2 |
| Thy heart thy hand thy lyre thy sword | A |
| Thou givest all unto thy Lord | A |
| While I so mean and abject grown | D |
| Am thinking of myself alone | D |
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| Walter Be patient Time will reinstate | A |
| Thy health and fortunes | X |
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| Prince Henry 'T is too late | A |
| I cannot strive against my fate | A |
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| Walter Come with me for my steed is weary | A |
| Our journey has been long and dreary | A |
| And dreaming of his stall he dints | X |
| With his impatient hoofs the flints | X |
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| Prince Henry aside I am ashamed in my disgrace | X |
| To look into that noble face | X |
| To morrow Walter let it be | A |
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| Walter To morrow at the dawn of day | A |
| I shall again be on my way | A |
| Come with me to the hostelry | A |
| For I have many things to say | A |
| Our journey into Italy | A |
| Perchance together we may make | B2 |
| Wilt thou not do it for my sake | B2 |
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| Prince Henry A sick man's pace would but impede | A |
| Thine eager and impatient speed | A |
| Besides my pathway leads me round | A |
| To Hirsehau in the forest's bound | A |
| Where I assemble man and steed | A |
| And all things for my journey's need | A |
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| They go out LUCIFER flying over the city | A |
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| Sleep sleep O city till the light | A |
| Wakes you to sin and crime again | D |
| Whilst on your dreams like dismal rain | D |
| I scatter downward through the night | A |
| My maledictions dark and deep | H |
| I have more martyrs in your walls | X |
| Than God has and they cannot sleep | H |
| They are my bondsmen and my thralls | X |
| Their wretched lives are full of pain | D |
| Wild agonies of nerve and brain | D |
| And every heart beat every breath | J |
| Is a convulsion worse than death | J |
| Sleep sleep O city though within | D |
| The circuit of your walls there lies | X |
| No habitation free from sin | D |
| And all its nameless miseries | X |
| The aching heart the aching head | A |
| Grief for the living and the dead | A |
| And foul corruption of the time | L2 |
| Disease distress and want and woe | I2 |
| And crimes and passions that may grow | I2 |
| Until they ripen into crime | L2 |
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| SQUARE IN FRONT OF THE CATHEDRAL | M2 |
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| Easter Sunday FRIAR CUTHBERT preaching to the | N2 |
| crowd from a pulpit in the open air PRINCE | X |
| HENRY and ELSIE crossing the square | A |
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| Prince Henry This is the day when from the dead | A |
| Our Lord arose and everywhere | A |
| Out of their darkness and despair | A |
| Triumphant over fears and foes | X |
| The hearts of his disciples rose | X |
| When to the women standing near | A |
| The Angel in shining vesture said | A |
| 'The Lord is risen he is not here ' | - |
| And mindful that the day is come | O2 |
| On all the hearths in Christendom | O2 |
| The fires are quenched to be again | D |
| Rekindled from the sun that high | P2 |
| Is dancing in the cloudless sky | P2 |
| The churches are all decked with flowers | X |
| The salutations among men | D |
| Are but the Angel's words divine | D |
| 'Christ is arisen ' and the bells | X |
| Catch the glad murmur as it swells | X |
| And chaunt together in their towers | X |
| All hearts are glad and free from care | A |
| The faces of the people shine | D |
| See what a crowd is in the square | A |
| Gaily and gallantly arrayed | A |
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| Elsie Let us go back I am afraid | A |
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| Prince Henry Nay let us mount the church steps here | A |
| Under the doorway's sacred shadow | I2 |
| We can see all things and be freer | A |
| From the crowd that madly heaves and presses | X |
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| Elsie What a gay pageant what bright dresses | X |
| It looks like a flower besprinkled meadow | I2 |
| What is that yonder on the square | A |
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| Prince Henry A pulpit in the open air | A |
| And a Friar who is preaching to the crowd | A |
| With a voice so deep and clear and loud | A |
| That if we l | R |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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