Wanderlieder. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFDGE HHEHIIJKKLMNMLOON PEEPQPQDRQDQRQQSTSUU VVWXXW YIIYYYY VUUVUUZZ EA2EA2B2C2D2CD2UUC EIEIUE2UE2 YUUYUEUE GF2HHGF2G2EH2I2EH2DN DNEDDE

Sunrise In The Place De La Concorde Paris AugustA
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I stand at the break of dayB
In the Champs ElyseesC
The tremulous shafts of dawningD
As they shoot o'er the Tuileries earlyE
Strike Luxor's cold grey spireF
And wild in the light of the morningD
With their marble manes on fireG
Ramp the white Horses of MarlyE
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But the Place of Concord liesH
Dead hushed 'neath the ashy skiesH
And the Cities sit in councilE
With sleep in their wide stone eyesH
I see the mystic plainI
Where the army of spectres slainI
In the Emperor's life long warJ
March on with unsounding treadK
To trumpets whose voice is deadK
Their spectral chief still leads themL
The ghostly flash of his swordM
Like a comet through mist shines farN
And the noiseless host is pouredM
For the gendarme never heeds themL
Up the long dim road where thunderedO
The army of Italy onwardO
Through the great pale Arch of the StarN
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The spectre army fadesP
Far up the glimmering hillE
But vaguely lingering stillE
A group of shuddering shadesP
Infects the pallid airQ
Growing dimmer as day invadesP
The hush of the dusky squareQ
There is one that seems a KingD
As if the ghost of a CrownR
Still shadowed his jail bleached hairQ
I can hear the guillotine ringD
As its regicide note rang thereQ
When he laid his tired life downR
And grew brave in his last despairQ
And a woman frail and fairQ
Who weeps at leaving a worldS
Of love and revel and sinT
In the vast Unknown to be hurledS
For life was wicked and sweetU
With kings at her small white feetU
And one every inch a QueenV
In life and in death a QueenV
Whose blood baptized the placeW
In the days of madness and fearX
Her shade has never a peerX
In majesty and graceW
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Murdered and murderers swarmY
Slayers that slew and were slainI
Till the drenched place smoked with the rainI
That poured in a torrent warmY
Till red as the Riders of EdomY
Were splashed the white garments of FreedomY
With the wash of the horrible stormY
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And Liberty's hands were not cleanV
In the day of her pride unchainedU
Her royal hands were stainedU
With the life of a King and QueenV
And darker than that with the bloodU
Of the nameless brave and goodU
Whose blood in witness clingsZ
More damning than Queens' and Kings'Z
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Has she not paid it dearlyE
Chained watching her chosen nationA2
Grinding late and earlyE
In the mills of usurpationA2
Have not her holy tearsB2
Flowing through shameful yearsC2
Washed the stains from her tortured handsD2
We thought so when God's fresh breezeC
Blowing over the sleeping landsD2
In 'Forty Eight waked the worldU
And the Burgher King was hurledU
From that palace behind the treesC
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As Freedom with eyes aglowE
Smiled glad through her childbirth painI
How was the mother to knowE
That her woe and travail were vainI
A smirking servant smiledU
When she gave him her child to keepE2
Did she know he would strangle the childU
As it lay in his arms asleepE2
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Liberty's cruellest shameY
She is stunned and speechless yetU
In her grief and bloody sweatU
Shall we make her trust her blameY
The treasure of 'Forty EightU
A lurking jail bird stoleE
She can but watch and waitU
As the swift sure seasons rollE
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And when in God's good hourG
Comes the time of the brave and trueF2
Freedom again shall riseH
With a blaze in her awful eyesH
That shall wither this robber powerG
As the sun now dries the dewF2
This Place shall roar with the voiceG2
Of the glad triumphant peopleE
And the heavens be gay with the chimesH2
Ringing with jubilant noiseI2
From every clamorous steepleE
The coming of better timesH2
And the dawn of Freedom wakingD
Shall fling its splendours farN
Like the day which now is breakingD
On the great pale Arch of the StarN
And back o'er the town shall flyE
While the joy bells wild are ringingD
To crown the Glory springingD
From the Column of JulyE

John Milton Hay



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