Celebrity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIJJKK LLBBMMKKNN| ON bridges small and bridges great | A |
| Stands Nepomucks in ev'ry state | A |
| Of bronze wood painted or of stone | B |
| Some small as dolls some giants grown | B |
| Each passer must worship before Nepomuck | C |
| Who to die on a bridge chanced to have the ill luck | C |
| When once a man with head and ears | D |
| A saint in people's eyes appears | D |
| Or has been sentenced piteously | E |
| Beneath the hangman's hand to die | F |
| He's as a noted person prized | G |
| In portrait is immortalized | G |
| Engravings woodcuts are supplied | H |
| And through the world spread far and wide | H |
| Upon them all is seen his name | I |
| And ev'ry one admits his claim | I |
| Even the image of the Lord | J |
| Is not with greater zeal ador'd | J |
| Strange fancy of the human race | K |
| Half sinner frail half child of grace | K |
| We see HERR WERTHER of the story | L |
| In all the pomp of woodcut glory | L |
| His worth is first made duly known | B |
| By having his sad features shown | B |
| At ev'ry fair the country round | M |
| In ev'ry alehouse too they're found | M |
| His stick is pointed by each dunce | K |
| The ball would reach his brain at once | K |
| And each says o'er his beer and bread | N |
| Thank Heav'n that 'tis not we are dead | N |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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