The Happy Couple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA BC DC D E FE FG GG G H IH IJ KJ K G GG GL GL G G IG IG GG G M GM GN ON O P QR QS IS I T GT GU GU G G VG VW XY X G GG GG ZG Z A2 GA2 GE KE KAFTER these vernal rains | A |
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That we so warmly sought | B |
Dear wife see how our plains | A |
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With blessings sweet are fraught | B |
We cast our distant gaze | C |
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Far in the misty blue | D |
Here gentle love still strays | C |
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Here dwells still rapture true | D |
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Thou seest whither go | E |
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Yon pair of pigeons white | F |
Where swelling violets blow | E |
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Round sunny foliage bright | F |
'Twas there we gather'd first | G |
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A nosegay as we roved | G |
There into flame first burst | G |
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The passion that we proved | G |
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Yet when with plighted troth | H |
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The priest beheld us fare | I |
Home from the altar both | H |
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With many a youthful pair | I |
Then other moons had birth | J |
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And many a beauteous sun | K |
Then we had gain'd the earth | J |
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Whereon life's race to run | K |
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A hundred thousand fold | G |
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The mighty bond was seal'd | G |
In woods on mountains cold | G |
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In bushes in the field | G |
Within the wall in caves | L |
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And on the craggy height | G |
And love e'en o'er the waves | L |
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Bore in his tube the light | G |
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Contented we remain'd | G |
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We deem'd ourselves a pair | I |
'Twas otherwise ordain'd | G |
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For lo a third was there | I |
A fourth fifth sixth appear'd | G |
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And sat around our board | G |
And now the plants we've rear'd | G |
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High o'er our heads have soar'd | G |
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How fair and pleasant looks | M |
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On yonder beauteous spot | G |
Embraced by poplar brooks | M |
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The newly finish'd cot | G |
Who is it there that sits | N |
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In that glad home above | O |
Is't not our darling Fritz | N |
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With his own darling love | O |
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Beside yon precipice | P |
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Whence pent up waters steal | Q |
And leaving the abyss | R |
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Fall foaming through the wheel | Q |
Though people often tell | S |
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Of millers' wives so fair | I |
Yet none can e'er excel | S |
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Our dearest daughter there | I |
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Yet where the thick set green | T |
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Stands round yon church and sad | G |
Where the old fir tree's seen | T |
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Alone tow'rd heaven to nod | G |
'Tis there the ashes lie | U |
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Of our untimely dead | G |
From earth our gaze on high | U |
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By their blest memory's led | G |
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See how yon hill is bright | G |
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With billowy waving arms | V |
The force returns whose might | G |
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Has vanquished war's alarms | V |
Who proudly hastens here | W |
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With wreath encircled brow | X |
'Tis like our child so dear | Y |
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Thus Charles comes homeward now | X |
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That dearest honour'd guest | G |
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Is welcom'd by the bride | G |
She makes the true one blest | G |
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At the glad festal tide | G |
And ev'ry one makes haste | G |
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To join the dance with glee | Z |
While thou with wreaths hast graced | G |
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The youngest children three | Z |
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To sound of flute and horn | A2 |
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The time appears renew'd | G |
When we in love's young morn | A2 |
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In the glad dance upstood | G |
And perfect bliss I know | E |
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Ere the year's course is run | K |
For to the font we go | E |
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With grandson and with son | K |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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