Ernst Of Edelsheim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEBE BFGF HIJI KLEL MBAB BBCB BECE NOBO PMQM CFCF CRBR CMBM JSJD BFJF| I'll tell the story kissing | A |
| This white hand for my pains | B |
| No sweeter heart nor falser | C |
| E'er filled such fine blue veins | B |
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| I'll sing a song of true love | D |
| My Lilith dear to you | E |
| Contraria contrariis | B |
| The rule is old and true | E |
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| The happiest of all lovers | B |
| Was Ernst of Edelsheim | F |
| And why he was the happiest | G |
| I'll tell you in my rhyme | F |
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| One summer night he wandered | H |
| Within a lonely glade | I |
| And couched in moss and moonlight | J |
| He found a sleeping maid | I |
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| The stars of midnight sifted | K |
| Above her sands of gold | L |
| She seemed a slumbering statue | E |
| So fair and white and cold | L |
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| Fair and white and cold she lay | M |
| Beneath the starry skies | B |
| Rosy was her waking | A |
| Beneath the Ritter's eyes | B |
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| He won her drowsy fancy | B |
| He bore her to his towers | B |
| And swift with love and laughter | C |
| Flew morning's purpled hours | B |
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| But when the thickening sunbeams | B |
| Had drunk the gleaming dew | E |
| A misty cloud of sorrow | C |
| Swept o'er her eyes' deep blue | E |
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| She hung upon the Ritter's neck | N |
| S he wept with love and pain | O |
| She showered her sweet warm kisses | B |
| Like fragrant summer rain | O |
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| I am no Christian soul she sobbed | P |
| As in his arms she lay | M |
| I'm half the day a woman | Q |
| A serpent half the day | M |
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| And when from yonder bell tower | C |
| Rings out the noonday chime | F |
| Farewell farewell forever | C |
| Sir Ernst of Edelsheim | F |
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| Ah not farewell forever | C |
| The Ritter wildly cried | R |
| I will be saved or lost with thee | B |
| My lovely Wili Bride | R |
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| Loud from the lordly bell tower | C |
| Rang out the noon of day | M |
| And from the bower of roses | B |
| A serpent slid away | M |
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| But when the mid watch moonlight | J |
| Was shimmering through the grove | S |
| He clasped his bride thrice dowered | J |
| With beauty and with love | D |
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| The happiest of all lovers | B |
| Was Ernst of Edelsheim | F |
| His true love was a serpent | J |
| Only half the time | F |
John Hay
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