L'envol. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA BCC D ED FGG H GH GII J JJ JDD CC| Now gentle reader is our journey ended | A |
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| Mute is our minstrel silent is our song | B |
| Sweet the bard's voice whose strains our course attended | A |
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| Pleasant the paths he guided us along | B |
| Now must we part Oh word all full of sadness | C |
| Changing to pensive retrospect our gladness | C |
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| Reader farewell we part perchance for ever | D |
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| Scarce may I hope to meet with thee again | E |
| But e'en though fate our fellowship may sever | D |
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| Reader will aught to mark that tie remain | F |
| Yes there is left one sad sweet bond of union | G |
| Sorrow at parting links us in communion | G |
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| But of the twain the greater is my sorrow | H |
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| Reader and why Bethink thee of the sun | G |
| How when he sets he waiteth for the morrow | H |
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| Proudly once more his giant race to run | G |
| Yet e'en when set a glow behind him leaving | I |
| Gladdening the spirit which had else been grieving | I |
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| Thus mayst thou feel for thou to GOETHE only | J |
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| Baldest farewell nor camest aught for me | J |
| Twofold my parting leaving me all lonely | J |
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| I now must part from GOETHE and from thee | J |
| Parting at once from comrade and from leader | D |
| Farewell great minstrel farewell gentle reader | D |
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| Hush'd is the harp its music sunk in slumbers | C |
| Memory alone can waken now its numbers | C |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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