Longing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC BD EE E F GH GI JE J K LM LN CO C F II PF QE Q I EC E E FC F| WHAT pulls at my heart so | A |
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| What tells me to roam | B |
| What drags me and lures me | C |
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| From chamber and home | B |
| How round the cliffs gather | D |
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| The clouds high in air | E |
| I fain would go thither | E |
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| I fain would be there | E |
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| The sociable flight | F |
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| Of the ravens comes back | G |
| I mingle amongst them | H |
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| And follow their track | G |
| Round wall and round mountain | I |
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| Together we fly | J |
| She tarries below there | E |
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| I after her spy | J |
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| Then onward she wanders | K |
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| My flight I wing soon | L |
| To the wood fill'd with bushes | M |
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| A bird of sweet tune | L |
| She tarries and hearkens | N |
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| And smiling thinks she | C |
| How sweetly he's singing | O |
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| He's singing to me | C |
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| The heights are illum'd | F |
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| By the fast setting sun | I |
| The pensive fair maiden | I |
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| Looks thoughtfully on | P |
| She roams by the streamlet | F |
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| O'er meadows she goes | Q |
| And darker and darker | E |
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| The pathway fast grows | Q |
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| I rise on a sudden | I |
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| A glimmering star | E |
| What glitters above me | C |
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| So near and so far | E |
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| And when thou with wonder | E |
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| Hast gazed on the light | F |
| I fall down before thee | C |
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| Entranced by thy sight | F |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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