The Visit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECBAF GHGDG CIJIKIILEGA GGGA MGEIADEIGEGD GCIG GAGEAGB NDE| FAIN had I to day surprised my mistress | A |
| But soon found I that her door was fasten'd | B |
| Yet I had the key safe in my pocket | C |
| And the darling door I open'd softly | D |
| In the parlour found I not the maiden | E |
| Found the maiden not within her closet | C |
| Then her chamber door I gently open'd | B |
| When I found her wrapp'd in pleasing slumbers | A |
| Fully dress'd and lying on the sofa | F |
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| While at work had slumber stolen o'er her | G |
| For her knitting and her needle found I | H |
| Resting in her folded bands so tender | G |
| And I placed myself beside her softly | D |
| And held counsel whether I should wake her | G |
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| Then I looked upon the beauteous quiet | C |
| That on her sweet eyelids was reposing | I |
| On her lips was silent truth depicted | J |
| On her cheeks had loveliness its dwelling | I |
| And the pureness of a heart unsullied | K |
| In her bosom evermore was heaving | I |
| All her limbs were gracefully reclining | I |
| Set at rest by sweet and godlike balsam | L |
| Gladly sat I and the contemplation | E |
| Held the strong desire I felt to wake her | G |
| Firmer and firmer down with mystic fetters | A |
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| Oh thou love methought I see that slumber | G |
| Slumber that betrayeth each false feature | G |
| Cannot injure thee can nought discover | G |
| That could serve to harm thy friend's soft feelings | A |
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| Now thy beauteous eyes are firmly closed | M |
| That when open form mine only rapture | G |
| And thy sweet lips are devoid of motion | E |
| Motionless for speaking or for kissing | I |
| Loosen'd are the soft and magic fetters | A |
| Of thine arms so wont to twine around me | D |
| And the hand the ravishing companion | E |
| Of thy sweet caresses lies unmoving | I |
| Were my thoughts of thee but based on error | G |
| Were the love I bear thee self deception | E |
| I must now have found it out since Amor | G |
| Is without his bandage placed beside me | D |
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| Long I sat thus full of heartfelt pleasure | G |
| At my love and at her matchless merit | C |
| She had so delighted me while slumbering | I |
| That I could not venture to awake her | G |
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| Then I on the little table near her | G |
| Softly placed two oranges two roses | A |
| Gently gently stole I from her chamber | G |
| When her eyes the darling one shall open | E |
| She will straightway spy these colourd presents | A |
| And the friendly gift will view with wonder | G |
| For the door will still remain unopen'd | B |
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| If perchance I see to night the angel | N |
| How will she rejoice reward me doubly | D |
| For this sacrifice of fond affection | E |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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