The First Walpurgis-night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B B C D D C E E FG FG F H GG F F I JJK BK BL BLL M L B BLL A B B N O O N P P QR QR Q S TT Q Q U VVW DX DQ DQQ S XWDDQQ A E E Y B B Y Z Z EA2 EA2 E U B2C2D2 YD2 YQ YQDD S D2D2YYDD H A2 EA2 E| A DRUID | A |
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| SWEET smiles the May | B |
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| The forest gay | B |
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| From frost and ice is freed | C |
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| No snow is found | D |
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| Glad songs resound | D |
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| Across the verdant mead | C |
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| Upon the height | E |
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| The snow lies light | E |
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| Yet thither now we go | F |
| There to extol our Father's name | G |
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| Whom we for ages know | F |
| Amid the smoke shall gleam the flame | G |
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| Thus pure the heart will grow | F |
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| THE DRUIDS | H |
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| Amid the smoke shall gleam the flame | G |
| Extol we now our Father's name | G |
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| Whom we for ages know | F |
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| Up up then let us go | F |
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| ONE OF THE PEOPLE | I |
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| Would ye then so rashly act | J |
| Would ye instant death attract | J |
| Know ye not the cruel threats | K |
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| Of the victors we obey | B |
| Round about are placed their nets | K |
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| In the sinful heathen's way | B |
| Ah upon the lofty wall | L |
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| Wife and children slaughter they | B |
| And we all | L |
| Hasten to a certain fall | L |
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| CHORUS OF WOMEN | M |
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| Ay upon the camp's high wall | L |
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| All our children loved they slay | B |
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| Ah what cruel victors they | B |
| And we all | L |
| Hasten to a certain fall | L |
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| A DRUID | A |
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| Who fears to day | B |
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| His rites to pay | B |
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| Deserves his chains to wear | N |
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| The forest's free | O |
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| This wood take we | O |
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| And straight a pile prepare | N |
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| Yet in the wood | P |
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| To stay 'tis good | P |
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| By day till all is still | Q |
| With watchers all around us plac'd | R |
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| Protecting you from ill | Q |
| With courage fresh then let us haste | R |
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| Our duties to fulfil | Q |
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| CHORUS OF WATCHERS | S |
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| Ye valiant watchers now divide | T |
| Your numbers through the forest wide | T |
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| And see that all is still | Q |
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| While they their rites fulfil | Q |
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| A WATCHER | U |
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| Let us in a cunning wise | V |
| Yon dull Christian priests surprise | V |
| With the devil of their talk | W |
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| We'll those very priests confound | D |
| Come with prong and come with fork | X |
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| Raise a wild and rattling sound | D |
| Through the livelong night and prowl | Q |
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| All the rocky passes round | D |
| Screechowl owl | Q |
| Join in chorus with our howl | Q |
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| CHORUS OF WATCHERS | S |
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| Come with prong and come with fork | X |
| Like the devil of their talk | W |
| And with wildly rattling sound | D |
| Prowl the desert rocks around | D |
| Screechowl owl | Q |
| Join in chorus with our howl | Q |
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| A DRUID | A |
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| Thus far 'tis right | E |
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| That we by night | E |
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| Our Father's praises sing | Y |
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| Yet when 'tis day | B |
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| To Thee we may | B |
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| A heart unsullied bring | Y |
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| 'Tis true that now | Z |
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| And often Thou | Z |
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| Fav'rest the foe in fight | E |
| As from the smoke is freed the blaze | A2 |
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| So let our faith burn bright | E |
| And if they crush our golden ways | A2 |
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| Who e'er can crush Thy light | E |
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| A CHRISTIAN WATCHER | U |
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| Comrades quick your aid afford | B2 |
| All the brood of hell's abroad | C2 |
| See how their enchanted forms | D2 |
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| Through and through with flames are glowing | Y |
| Dragon women men wolf swarms | D2 |
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| On in quick succession going | Y |
| Let us let us haste to fly | Q |
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| Wilder yet the sounds are growing | Y |
| And the archfiend roars on high | Q |
| From the ground | D |
| Hellish vapours rise around | D |
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| CHORUS OF CHRISTIAN WATCHERS | S |
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| Terrible enchanted forms | D2 |
| Dragon women men wolf swarms | D2 |
| Wilder yet the sounds are growing | Y |
| See the archfiend comes all glowing | Y |
| From the ground | D |
| Hellish vapours rise around | D |
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| CHORUS OF DRUIDS | H |
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| As from the smoke is freed the blaze | A2 |
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| So let our faith burn bright | E |
| And if they crush our golden ways | A2 |
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| Who e'er can crush Thy light | E |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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