Threatening Signs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEBFFFGGHHIJ KKLLMMNN| IF Venus in the evening sky | A |
| Is seen in radiant majesty | B |
| If rod like comets red as blood | C |
| Are 'mongst the constellations view'd | D |
| Out springs the Ignoramus yelling | E |
| The star's exactly o'er my dwelling | E |
| What woeful prospect ah for me | B |
| Then calls his neighbour mournfully | F |
| Behold that awful sign of evil | F |
| Portending woe to me poor devil | F |
| My mother's asthma ne'er will leave her | G |
| My child is sick with wind and fever | G |
| I dread the illness of my wife | H |
| A week has pass'd devoid of strife | H |
| And other things have reach'd my ear | I |
| The Judgment Day has come I fear | J |
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| His neighbour answered Friend you're right | K |
| Matters look very had to night | K |
| Let's go a street or two though hence | L |
| And gaze upon the stars from thence | L |
| No change appears in either case | M |
| Let each remain then in his place | M |
| And wisely do the best he can | N |
| Patient as any other man | N |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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