The Magic Net Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCCDC EFGHIAJK LCJMNOP QRRQERKS FCCRRCT NGRU| Do I see a contest yonder | A |
| See I miracles or pastimes | B |
| Beauteous urchins five in number | A |
| 'Gainst five sisters fair contending | C |
| Measured is the time they're beating | C |
| At a bright enchantress' bidding | C |
| Glitt'ring spears by some are wielded | D |
| Threads are others nimbly twining | C |
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| So that in their snares the weapons | E |
| One would think must needs be captured | F |
| Soon in truth the spears are prison'd | G |
| Yet they in the gentle war dance | H |
| One by one escape their fetters | I |
| In the row of loops so tender | A |
| That make haste to seize a free one | J |
| Soon as they release a captive | K |
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| So with contests strivings triumphs | L |
| Flying now and now returning | C |
| Is an artful net soon woven | J |
| In its whiteness like the snow flakes | M |
| That from light amid the darkness | N |
| Draw their streaky lines so varied | O |
| As e'en colours scarce can draw them | P |
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| Who shall now receive that garment | Q |
| Far beyond all others wish'd for | R |
| Whom our much loved mistress favour | R |
| As her own acknowledged servant | Q |
| I am blest by kindly Fortune's | E |
| Tokens true in silence pray'd for | R |
| And I feel myself held captive | K |
| To her service now devoted | S |
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| Yet e'en while I thus enraptured | F |
| Thus adorn'd am proudly wand'ring | C |
| See yon wantons are entwining | C |
| Void of strife with secret ardour | R |
| Other nets each fine and finer | R |
| Threads of twilight interweaving | C |
| Moonbeams sweet night violets' balsam | T |
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| Ere the net is noticed by us | N |
| Is a happier one imprison'd | G |
| Whom we one and all together | R |
| Greet with envy and with blessings | U |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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