The Book Of Paradise - The Seven Sleepers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEAFGHAADI EBAIEIJK JAIBD LIDKD DDIAJIAAC MID AMAMAIIN OAM PIIIOAA QQD MIFAM NIRAD JIRIADCMI KEEEIDADAADSix among the courtiers favour'd | A |
Fly before the Caesar's fury | B |
Who would as a god be worshipp'd | A |
Though in truth no god appearing | C |
For a fly prevents him ever | D |
From enjoying food at table | E |
Though with fans his servants scare it | A |
They the fly can never banish | F |
It torments him stings and troubles | G |
And the festal board perplexes | H |
Then returning like the herald | A |
Of the olden crafty Fly God | A |
'What ' the striplings say together | D |
'Shall a fly a god embarrass | I |
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Shall a god drink eat at table | E |
Like us mortals No the Only | B |
Who the sun and moon created | A |
And the glowing stars arch'd o'er us | I |
He is God we'll fly ' The gentle | E |
Lightly shod and dainty striplings | I |
Did a shepherd meet and hide them | J |
With himself within a cavern | K |
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And the sheep dog will not leave them | J |
Scared away his foot all mangled | A |
To his master still he presses | I |
And he joins the hidden party | B |
Joins the favorites of slumber | D |
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And the prince whom they had fled from | L |
Fondly furious thinks of vengeance | I |
And discarding sword and fire | D |
Has them walled up in the cavern | K |
Walled up fast with bricks and mortar | D |
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But the others slumber ever | D |
And the Angel their protector | D |
Gives before God's throne this notice | I |
'To the right and left alternate | A |
Have I ever cared to turn them | J |
That their fair and youthful members | I |
Be not by the mould damp injured | A |
Clefts within the rocks I open'd | A |
That the sun may rising setting | C |
Keep their cheeks in youthful freshness ' | - |
So they lie there bless'd by Heaven | M |
And with forepaws sound and scatheless | I |
Sleeps the dog in gentle slumber | D |
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Years come round and years fly onward | A |
And the youths at length awaken | M |
And the wall which now had moldered | A |
From its very age has fallen | M |
And Jamblika says whose beauty | A |
Far exceedeth all the others | I |
When the fearful shepherd lingers | I |
'I will run and food procure you | N |
Life and piece of gold I'll wager ' | - |
Ephebus had many a year now | O |
Own'd the teaching of the Prophet | A |
Jesus Peace be with the Good One | M |
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And he ran and at the gateway | P |
Were the warders and the others | I |
Yet he to the nearest baker's | I |
Seeking bread went swiftly onwards | I |
'Rogue ' thus cried the baker 'hast thou | O |
Youth a treasure then discover'd | A |
Give me for the gold betrays thee | A |
Give me half to keep thy secret ' | - |
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And they quarrel To the monarch | Q |
Comes the matter and the monarch | Q |
Fain would halve it like the baker | D |
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Now the miracle is proven | M |
Slowly by a hundred tokens | I |
He can e'en his right establish | F |
To the palace he erected | A |
For a pillar when pierced open | M |
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Leads to wealth he said 'twould lead to | N |
Soon are gather'd there whole races | I |
Their relationship to show him | R |
And as great grandfather nobly | A |
Stands Jamblika's youthful figure | D |
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As of ancestors he hears them | J |
Speaking of his son and grandsons | I |
His great grandsons stand around him | R |
Like a race of valiant mortals | I |
Him to honour him the youngest | A |
And one token on another | D |
Rises up the proof completing | C |
The identity is proven | M |
Of himself and of his comrades | I |
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Now returns he to the cavern | K |
With him go both king and people | E |
Neither to the king nor people | E |
E'er returns that chosen mortal | E |
For the Seven who for ages | I |
Eight was with the dog their number | D |
Had from all the world been sunder'd | A |
Gabriel's mysterious power | D |
To the will of God obedient | A |
Hath to Paradise conducted | A |
And the cave was closed for ever | D |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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