The Wedding Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BA BC DE D F GH GI JI J K LK MN ON O| WITHIN the chamber far away | A |
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| From the glad feast sits Love in dread | B |
| Lest guests disturb in wanton play | A |
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| The silence of the bridal bed | B |
| His torch's pale flame serves to gild | C |
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| The scene with mystic sacred glow | D |
| The room with incense clouds is fil'd | E |
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| That ye may perfect rapture know | D |
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| How beats thy heart when thou dost hear | F |
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| The chime that warns thy guests to fly | G |
| How glow'st thou for those lips so dear | H |
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| That soon are mute and nought deny | G |
| With her into the holy place | I |
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| Thou hast'nest then to perfect all | J |
| The fire the warder's hands embrace | I |
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| Grows like a night light dim and small | J |
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| How heaves her bosom and how burns | K |
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| Her face at every fervent kiss | L |
| Her coldness now to trembling turns | K |
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| Thy daring now a duty is | M |
| Love helps thee to undress her fast | N |
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| But thou art twice as fast as he | O |
| And then he shuts both eye at last | N |
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| With sly and roguish modesty | O |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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