Wanderlieder. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFDGE HHEHIIJKKLMNMLOON PEEPQPQDRQDQRQQSTSUU VVWXXW YIIYYYY VUUVUUZZ EA2EA2B2C2D2CD2UUC EIEIUE2UE2 YUUYUEUE GF2HHGF2G2EH2I2EH2DN DNEDDESunrise In The Place De La Concorde Paris August | A |
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I stand at the break of day | B |
In the Champs Elysees | C |
The tremulous shafts of dawning | D |
As they shoot o'er the Tuileries early | E |
Strike Luxor's cold grey spire | F |
And wild in the light of the morning | D |
With their marble manes on fire | G |
Ramp the white Horses of Marly | E |
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But the Place of Concord lies | H |
Dead hushed 'neath the ashy skies | H |
And the Cities sit in council | E |
With sleep in their wide stone eyes | H |
I see the mystic plain | I |
Where the army of spectres slain | I |
In the Emperor's life long war | J |
March on with unsounding tread | K |
To trumpets whose voice is dead | K |
Their spectral chief still leads them | L |
The ghostly flash of his sword | M |
Like a comet through mist shines far | N |
And the noiseless host is poured | M |
For the gendarme never heeds them | L |
Up the long dim road where thundered | O |
The army of Italy onward | O |
Through the great pale Arch of the Star | N |
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The spectre army fades | P |
Far up the glimmering hill | E |
But vaguely lingering still | E |
A group of shuddering shades | P |
Infects the pallid air | Q |
Growing dimmer as day invades | P |
The hush of the dusky square | Q |
There is one that seems a King | D |
As if the ghost of a Crown | R |
Still shadowed his jail bleached hair | Q |
I can hear the guillotine ring | D |
As its regicide note rang there | Q |
When he laid his tired life down | R |
And grew brave in his last despair | Q |
And a woman frail and fair | Q |
Who weeps at leaving a world | S |
Of love and revel and sin | T |
In the vast Unknown to be hurled | S |
For life was wicked and sweet | U |
With kings at her small white feet | U |
And one every inch a Queen | V |
In life and in death a Queen | V |
Whose blood baptized the place | W |
In the days of madness and fear | X |
Her shade has never a peer | X |
In majesty and grace | W |
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Murdered and murderers swarm | Y |
Slayers that slew and were slain | I |
Till the drenched place smoked with the rain | I |
That poured in a torrent warm | Y |
Till red as the Riders of Edom | Y |
Were splashed the white garments of Freedom | Y |
With the wash of the horrible storm | Y |
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And Liberty's hands were not clean | V |
In the day of her pride unchained | U |
Her royal hands were stained | U |
With the life of a King and Queen | V |
And darker than that with the blood | U |
Of the nameless brave and good | U |
Whose blood in witness clings | Z |
More damning than Queens' and Kings' | Z |
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Has she not paid it dearly | E |
Chained watching her chosen nation | A2 |
Grinding late and early | E |
In the mills of usurpation | A2 |
Have not her holy tears | B2 |
Flowing through shameful years | C2 |
Washed the stains from her tortured hands | D2 |
We thought so when God's fresh breeze | C |
Blowing over the sleeping lands | D2 |
In 'Forty Eight waked the world | U |
And the Burgher King was hurled | U |
From that palace behind the trees | C |
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As Freedom with eyes aglow | E |
Smiled glad through her childbirth pain | I |
How was the mother to know | E |
That her woe and travail were vain | I |
A smirking servant smiled | U |
When she gave him her child to keep | E2 |
Did she know he would strangle the child | U |
As it lay in his arms asleep | E2 |
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Liberty's cruellest shame | Y |
She is stunned and speechless yet | U |
In her grief and bloody sweat | U |
Shall we make her trust her blame | Y |
The treasure of 'Forty Eight | U |
A lurking jail bird stole | E |
She can but watch and wait | U |
As the swift sure seasons roll | E |
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And when in God's good hour | G |
Comes the time of the brave and true | F2 |
Freedom again shall rise | H |
With a blaze in her awful eyes | H |
That shall wither this robber power | G |
As the sun now dries the dew | F2 |
This Place shall roar with the voice | G2 |
Of the glad triumphant people | E |
And the heavens be gay with the chimes | H2 |
Ringing with jubilant noise | I2 |
From every clamorous steeple | E |
The coming of better times | H2 |
And the dawn of Freedom waking | D |
Shall fling its splendours far | N |
Like the day which now is breaking | D |
On the great pale Arch of the Star | N |
And back o'er the town shall fly | E |
While the joy bells wild are ringing | D |
To crown the Glory springing | D |
From the Column of July | E |
John Milton Hay
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