The Metamorphosis Of Plants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FG HI JK LA JC ME NI OP QP RO SO TA UI GA PV WX RP OE YP ZC OC A2C B2C2 AC OO OI OD2 CE2 OF2 G2I OE OA OH2 A2A2 OA2 OO I2A OTHOU art confused my beloved at seeing the thousandfold union | A |
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Shown in this flowery troop over the garden dispers'd | B |
any a name dost thou hear assign'd one after another | C |
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Falls on thy list'ning ear with a barbarian sound | D |
None resembleth another yet all their forms have a likeness | E |
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Therefore a mystical law is by the chorus proclaim'd | F |
Yes a sacred enigma Oh dearest friend could I only | G |
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Happily teach thee the word which may the mystery solve | H |
Closely observe how the plant by little and little progressing | I |
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Step by step guided on changeth to blossom and fruit | J |
First from the seed it unravels itself as soon as the silent | K |
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Fruit bearing womb of the earth kindly allows Its escape | L |
And to the charms of the light the holy the ever in motion | A |
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Trusteth the delicate leaves feebly beginning to shoot | J |
Simply slumber'd the force in the seed a germ of the future | C |
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Peacefully lock'd in itself 'neath the integument lay | M |
Leaf and root and bud still void of colour and shapeless | E |
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Thus doth the kernel while dry cover that motionless life | N |
Upward then strives it to swell in gentle moisture confiding | I |
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And from the night where it dwelt straightway ascendeth to light | O |
Yet still simple remaineth its figure when first it appeareth | P |
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And 'tis a token like this points out the child 'mid the plants | Q |
Soon a shoot succeeding it riseth on high and reneweth | P |
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Piling up node upon node ever the primitive form | R |
Yet not ever alike for the following leaf as thou seest | O |
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Ever produceth itself fashioned in manifold ways | S |
Longer more indented in points and in parts more divided | O |
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Which all deform'd until now slept in the organ below | T |
So at length it attaineth the noble and destined perfection | A |
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Which in full many a tribe fills thee with wondering awe | U |
Many ribb'd and tooth'd on a surface juicy and swelling | I |
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Free and unending the shoot seemeth in fullness to be | G |
Yet here Nature restraineth with powerful hands the formation | A |
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And to a perfecter end guideth with softness its growth | P |
Less abundantly yielding the sap contracting the vessels | V |
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So that the figure ere long gentler effects doth disclose | W |
Soon and in silence is check'd the growth of the vigorous branches | X |
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And the rib of the stalk fuller becometh in form | R |
Leafless however and quick the tenderer stem then up springeth | P |
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And a miraculous sight doth the observer enchant | O |
Ranged in a circle in numbers that now are small and now countless | E |
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Gather the smaller sized leaves close by the side of their like | Y |
Round the axis compress'd the sheltering calyx unfoldeth | P |
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And as the perfectest type brilliant hued coronals forms | Z |
Thus doth Nature bloom in glory still nobler and fuller | C |
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Showing in order arranged member on member uprear'd | O |
Wonderment fresh dost thou feel as soon as the stem rears the flower | C |
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Over the scaffolding frail of the alternating leaves | A2 |
But this glory is only the new creation's foreteller | C |
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Yes the leaf with its hues feeleth the hand all divine | B2 |
And on a sudden contracteth itself the tenderest figures | C2 |
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Twofold as yet hasten on destined to blend into one | A |
Lovingly now the beauteous pairs are standing together | C |
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Gather'd in countless array there where the altar is raised | O |
Hymen hovereth o'er them and scents delicious and mighty | O |
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Stream forth their fragrance so sweet all things enliv'ning around | O |
Presently parcell'd out unnumber'd germs are seen swelling | I |
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Sweetly conceald in the womb where is made perfect the fruit | O |
Here doth Nature close the ring of her forces eternal | D2 |
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Yet doth a new one at once cling to the one gone before | C |
So that the chain be prolonged for ever through all generations | E2 |
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And that the whole may have life e'en as enjoy'd by each part | O |
Now my beloved one turn thy gaze on the many hued thousands | F2 |
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Which confusing no more gladden the mind as they wave | G2 |
Every plant unto thee proclaimeth the laws everlasting | I |
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Every flowered speaks louder and louder to thee | O |
But if thou here canst decipher the mystic words of the goddess | E |
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Everywhere will they be seen e'en though the features are changed | O |
Creeping insects may linger the eager butterfly hasten | A |
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Plastic and forming may man change e'en the figure decreed | O |
Oh then bethink thee as well how out of the germ of acquaintance | H2 |
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Kindly intercourse sprang slowly unfolding its leaves | A2 |
Soon how friendship with might unveil'd itself in our bosoms | A2 |
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And how Amor at length brought forth blossom and fruit | O |
Think of the manifold ways wherein Nature hath lent to our feelings | A2 |
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Silently giving them birth either the first or the last | O |
Yes and rejoice in the present day For love that is holy | O |
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Seeketh the noblest of fruits that where the thoughts are the same | I2 |
Where the opinions agree that the pair may in rapt contemplation | A |
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Lovingly blend into one find the more excellent world | O |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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