The Happiest Land. (from The German) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIBI JKL MBIB JINI OPJP QRSR TIUI| There sat one day in quiet | A |
| By an alehouse on the Rhine | B |
| Four hale and hearty fellows | C |
| And drank the precious wine | B |
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| The landlord's daughter filled their cups | D |
| Around the rustic board | E |
| Then sat they all so calm and still | F |
| And spake not one rude word | G |
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| But when the maid departed | H |
| A Swabian raised his hand | I |
| And cried all hot and flushed with wine | B |
| 'Long live the Swabian land | I |
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| 'The greatest kingdom upon earth | J |
| Cannot with that compare | K |
| With all the stout and hardy men | L |
| And the nut brown maidens there ' | - |
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| Ha cried a Saxon laughing | M |
| And dashed his beard with wine | B |
| ' I had rather live in Lapland | I |
| Than that Swabian land of thine | B |
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| The goodliest land on all this earth | J |
| It is the Saxon land | I |
| There have I as many maidens | N |
| As fingers on this hand | I |
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| Hold your tongues both Swabian and Saxon | O |
| A bold Bohemian cries | P |
| 'If there's a heaven upon this earth | J |
| In Bohemia it lies | P |
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| There the tailor blows the flute | Q |
| And the cobbler blows the horn | R |
| And the miner blows the bugle | S |
| Over mountain gorge and bourn | R |
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| And then the landlord's daughter | T |
| Up to heaven raised her hand | I |
| And said Ye may no more contend | U |
| There lies the happiest land | I |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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