Johanna Sebus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA B B C C D D E E F F AA G G H H II HH J J E E HH K K L L I I M M G G N N HH H H O P B B| THE DAM BREAKS DOWN THE ICE PLAIN GROWLS | A |
| THE FLOODS ARISE THE WATER HOWLS | A |
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| I'll bear thee mother across the swell | B |
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| 'Tis not yet high I can wade right well | B |
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| Remember us too in what danger are we | C |
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| Thy fellow lodger and children three | C |
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| The trembling woman Thou'rt going away | D |
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| She bears the mother across the spray | D |
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| Quick haste to the mound and awhile there wait | E |
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| I'll soon return and all will be straight | E |
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| The mound's close by and safe from the wet | F |
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| But take my goat too my darling pet | F |
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| THE DAM DISSOLVES THE ICE PLAIN GROWLS | A |
| THE FLOODS DASH ON THE WATER HOWLS | A |
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| She places the mother safe on the shore | G |
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| Fair Susan then turns tow'rd the flood once more | G |
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| Oh whither Oh whither The breadth fast grows | H |
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| Both here and there the water o'erflows | H |
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| Wilt venture thou rash one the billows to brave | I |
| THEY SHALL AND THEY MUST BE PRESERVED FROM THE WAVE | I |
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| THE DAM DISAPPEARS THE WATER GROWLS | H |
| LIKE OCEAN BILLOWS IT HEAVES AND HOWLS | H |
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| Fair Susan returns by the way she had tried | J |
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| The waves roar around but she turns not aside | J |
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| She reaches the mound and the neighbour straight | E |
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| But for her and the children alas too late | E |
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| THE DAM DISAPPEAR'D LIKE A SEA IT GROWLS | H |
| ROUND THE HILLOCK IN CIRCLING EDDIES IT HOWLS | H |
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| The foaming abyss gapes wide and whirls round | K |
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| The women and children are borne to the ground | K |
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| The horn of the goat by one is seized fast | L |
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| But ah they all must perish at last | L |
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| Fair Susan still stands there untouch'd by the wave | I |
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| The youngest the noblest oh who now will save | I |
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| Fair Susan still stands there as bright as a star | M |
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| But alas all hope all assistance is far | M |
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| The foaming waters around her roar | G |
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| To save her no bark pushes off from the shore | G |
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| Her gaze once again she lifts up to Heaven | N |
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| Then gently away by the flood she is driven | N |
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| NO DAM NO PLAIN TO MARK THE PLACE | H |
| SOME STRAGGLING TREES ARE THE ONLY TRACE | H |
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| The rushing water the wilderness covers | H |
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| Yet Susan's image still o'er it hovers | H |
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| The water sinks the plains re appear | O |
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| Fair Susan's lamented with many a tear | P |
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| May he who refuses her story to tell | B |
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| Be neglected in life and in death as well | B |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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