The Musagetes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDAEFFCCG HBIJAIFKJGFLICI AIIAIMIIIMBINIIAIGOIN the deepest nights of Winter | A |
To the Muses kind oft cried I | B |
Not a ray of morn is gleaming | C |
Not a sign of daylight breaking | C |
Bring then at the fitting moment | D |
Bring the lamp's soft glimm'ring lustre | A |
'Stead of Phoebus and Aurora | E |
To enliven my still labours | F |
Yet they left me in my slumbers | F |
Dull and unrefreshing lying | C |
And to each late waken'd morning | C |
Follow'd days devoid of profit | G |
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When at length return'd the spring time | H |
To the nightingales thus spake I | B |
Darling nightingales oh beat ye | I |
Early early at my window | J |
Wake me from the heavy slumber | A |
That chains down the youth so strongly | I |
Yet the love o'erflowing songsters | F |
Their sweet melodies protracted | K |
Through the night before my window | J |
Kept awake my loving spirit | G |
Rousing new and tender yearnings | F |
In my newly waken'd bosom | L |
And the night thus fleeted o'er me | I |
And Aurora found me sleeping | C |
Ay the sun could scarce arouse me | I |
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Now at length is come the Summer | A |
And the early fly so busy | I |
Draws me from my pleasing slumbers | I |
At the first born morning glimmer | A |
Mercilessly then returns she | I |
Though the half aroused one often | M |
Scares her from him with impatience | I |
And she lures her shameless sisters | I |
So that from my weary eyelids | I |
Kindly sleep ere long is driven | M |
From my couch then boldly spring I | B |
And I seek the darling Muses | I |
in the beechen grove I find them | N |
Full of pieasure to receive me | I |
And to the tormenting insects | I |
Owe I many a golden hour | A |
Thus be ye unwelcome beings | I |
Highly valued by the poet | G |
As the flies my numbers tell of | O |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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