The Maid Of The Mill's Repentance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A B CD CCC C E E FE FGG H C E GE GEE E E I CJ CKL C M CM CNN C E E EE ECC O P Q GQ GRR F O S GS GFF M C T IT NEE F O U VW VXX X C E FE FII E

YOUTHA
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AWAY thou swarthy witch Go forthB
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From out my house I tell theeC
Or else I needs must in my wrathD
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Expel theeC
What's this thou singest so falsely forsoothC
Of love and a maiden's silent truthC
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Who'll trust to such a storyC
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GIPSYE
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I sing of a maid's repentant fearsE
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And long and bitter yearningF
Her levity's changed to truth and tearsE
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All burningF
She dreads no more the threats of her motherG
She dreads far less the blows of her brotherG
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Than the dearly loved one's hatredH
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YOUTHC
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Of selfishness sing and treacherous liesE
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Of murder and thievish plunderG
Such actions false will cause no surpriseE
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Or wonderG
When they share their booty both clothes and purseE
As bad as you gipsies and even worseE
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Such tales find ready credenceE
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GIPSYE
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Alas alas oh what have I doneI
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Can listening aught avail meC
I hear him toward my room hasten onJ
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To hail meC
My heart beat high to myself I saidK
'O would that thou hadst never betray'dL
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That night of love to thy mother '-
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YOUTHC
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Alas I foolishly ventured thereM
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For the cheating silence misled meC
Ah sweetest let me to thee repairM
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Nor dread meC
When suddenly rose a fearful dinN
Her mad relations came pouring inN
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My blood still boils in my bodyC
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GIPSYE
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Oh when will return an hour like thisE
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I pine in silent sadnessE
I've thrown away my only true blissE
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With madnessE
Alas poor maid O pity my youthC
My brother was then full cruel in trothC
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To treat the loved one so baselyO
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THE POETP
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The swarthy woman then went insideQ
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To the spring in the courtyard yonderG
Her eyes from their stain she purifiedQ
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And wonderG
Her face and eyes were radiant and brightR
And the maid of the mill was disclosed to the sightR
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Of the startled and angry striplingF
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THE MAID OF THE MILLO
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Thou sweetest fairest dearly loved lifeS
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Before thine anger I cowerG
But blows I dread not nor sharp edged knifeS
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This hourG
Of sorrow and love to thee I'll singF
And myself before thy feet I'll flingF
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And either live or die thereM
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YOUTHC
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Affection say why buried so deepT
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In my heart hast thou lain hiddenI
By whom hast thou now to awake from thy sleepT
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Been biddenN
Ah love that thou art immortal I seeE
Nor knavish cunning nor treacheryE
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Can destroy thy life so godlikeF
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THE MAID OF THE MILLO
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If still with as fond and heartfelt loveU
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As thou once didst swear I'm cherish'dV
Then nought of the rapture we used to proveW
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Is perish'dV
So take the woman so dear to thy breastX
In her young and innocent charms be blestX
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For all are thine from henceforwardX
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BOTHC
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Now sun sink to rest Now sun ariseE
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Ye stars be now shining now darklingF
A star of love now gleams in the skiesE
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All sparklingF
As long as the fountain may spring and runI
So long will we two be blended in oneI
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Upon each other's bosomsE

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe



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