From Faust - I. Dedication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC BA BDE F GH GF GII J KJ KJ KBB B EB EB ELL| YE shadowy forms again ye're drawing near | A |
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| So wont of yore to meet my troubled gaze | B |
| Were it in vain to seek to keep you here | C |
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| Loves still my heart that dream of olden days | B |
| Oh come then and in pristine force appear | A |
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| Parting the vapor mist that round me plays | B |
| My bosom finds its youthful strength again | D |
| Feeling the magic breeze that marks your train | E |
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| Ye bring the forms of happy days of yore | F |
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| And many a shadow loved attends you too | G |
| Like some old lay whose dream was well nigh o'er | H |
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| First love appears again and friendship true | G |
| Upon life's labyrinthine path once more | F |
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| Is heard the sigh and grief revives anew | G |
| The friends are told who in their hour of pride | I |
| Deceived by fortune vanish'd from my side | I |
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| No longer do they hear my plaintive song | J |
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| The souls to whom I sang in life's young day | K |
| Scatter'd for ever now the friendly throng | J |
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| And mute alas each sweet responsive lay | K |
| My strains but to the careless crowd belong | J |
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| Their smiles but sorrow to my heart convey | K |
| And all who heard my numbers erst with gladness | B |
| If living yet roam o'er the earth in sadness | B |
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| Long buried yearnings in my breast arise | B |
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| Yon calm and solemn spirit realm to gain | E |
| Like the AEONIAN harp's sweet melodies | B |
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| My murmuring song breathes forth its changeful strain | E |
| A trembling seizes me tears fill mine eyes | B |
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| And softer grows my rugged heart amain | E |
| All I possess far distant seems to be | L |
| The vanish'd only seems reality | L |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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