The Luck Of Edenhall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DBEBB F FBB GBGBB HBBB IBIBB GBGB JBJBB ABABB KBLBB MBMB| Of Edenhall the youthful Lord | A |
| Bids sound the festal trumpet's call | B |
| He rises at the banquet board | A |
| And cries 'mid the drunken revellers all | B |
| 'Now bring me the Luck of Edenhall ' | C |
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| The butler hears the words with pain | D |
| The house's oldest seneschal | B |
| Takes slow from its silken cloth again | E |
| The drinking glass of crystal tall | B |
| They call it The Luck of Edenhall | B |
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| Then said the Lord 'This glass to praise | F |
| Fill with red wine from Portugal ' | - |
| The graybeard with trembling hand obeys | F |
| A purple light shines over all | B |
| It beams from the Luck of Edenhall | B |
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| Then speaks the Lord and waves it light | G |
| 'This glass of flashing crystal tall | B |
| Gave to my sires the Fountain Sprite | G |
| She wrote in it If this glass doth fall | B |
| Farewell then O Luck of Edenhall | B |
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| ''T was right a goblet the Fate should be | H |
| Of the joyous race of Edenhall | B |
| Deep draughts drink we right willingly | B |
| And willingly ring with merry call | B |
| Kling klang to the Luck of Edenhall ' | - |
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| First rings it deep and full and mild | I |
| Like to the song of a nightingale | B |
| Then like the roar of a torrent wild | I |
| Then mutters at last like the thunder's fall | B |
| The glorious Luck of Edenhall | B |
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| 'For its keeper takes a race of might | G |
| The fragile goblet of crystal tall | B |
| It has lasted longer than is right | G |
| King klang with a harder blow than all | B |
| Will I try the Luck of Edenhall ' | - |
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| As the goblet ringing flies apart | J |
| Suddenly cracks the vaulted hall | B |
| And through the rift the wild flames start | J |
| The guests in dust are scattered all | B |
| With the breaking Luck of Edenhall | B |
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| In storms the foe with fire and sword | A |
| He in the night had scaled the wall | B |
| Slain by the sword lies the youthful Lord | A |
| But holds in his hand the crystal tall | B |
| The shattered Luck of Edenhall | B |
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| On the morrow the butler gropes alone | K |
| The graybeard in the desert hall | B |
| He seeks his Lord's burnt skeleton | L |
| He seeks in the dismal ruin's fall | B |
| The shards of the Luck of Edenhall | B |
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| 'The stone wall ' saith he 'doth fall aside | M |
| Down must the stately columns fall | B |
| Glass is this earth's Luck and Pride | M |
| In atoms shall fall this earthly ball | B |
| One day like the Luck of Edenhall ' | - |
Johann Ludwig Uhland
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