Sfere Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE DEDE AFAF DDDD GAGA EDED DEDE EHEI AJAK LELE GEGE ABAB| I asked of my Muse had she any objection | A |
| To laughing with me not a word for reply | B |
| You see it is Sfere our time for dejection | A |
| And can a Jew laugh when the rule is to cry | B |
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| You laughed then you say 'tis a sound to affright one | A |
| In Jewish delight what is worthy the name | C |
| The laugh of a Jew It is never a right one | A |
| For laughing and groaning with him are the same | C |
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| You thought there was zest in a Jewish existence | D |
| You deemd that the star of a Jew could be kind | E |
| The Spring calls and beckons with gracious insistence | D |
| Jew sit down in sackcloth and weep yourself blind | E |
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| The garden is green and the woodland rejoices | D |
| How cool are the breezes with fragrance how blent | E |
| But Spring calls not you with her thousand sweet voices | D |
| With you it is Sfere sit still and lament | E |
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| The beautiful summer this life's consolation | A |
| In moaning and sighing glides quickly away | F |
| What hope can it offer to one of my nation | A |
| What joy can he find in the splendors of May | F |
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| Bewildered and homeless of whom whoso passes | D |
| May fearlessly stop to make sport at his ease | D |
| Say is it for him to seek flowers and grasses | D |
| For him to be thinking on meadows and trees | D |
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| And if for a moment forgetting to ponder | G |
| On grief and oppression song breaks out anew | A |
| I hear in his lay only Wander and wander | G |
| And ev'ry note tells me the singer's a Jew | A |
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| A skilful musician and one who is versed | E |
| In metre and measure whenever he hears | D |
| The pitiful song of the Jewish dispersed | E |
| It touches his heart and it moves him to tears | D |
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| The blast of the Ram's horn that quavers and trembles | D |
| On this now alone Jewish fancy is bent | E |
| To grief and contrition its host it assembles | D |
| And causes the stoniest heart to relent | E |
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| The wail that went up when the Temple was shattered | E |
| The song of Atonement the Suppliant's psalm | H |
| These only he loves since they took him and scattered | E |
| Away from the land of the balsam and balm | I |
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| Of all the sweet instruments shiver'd and broken | A |
| That once in the Temple delighted his ear | J |
| The Ram's horn alone has he kept as a token | A |
| And sobs out his soul on it once in the year | K |
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| Instead of the harp and the viol and cymbal | L |
| Instead of the lyre the guitar and the flute | E |
| He has but the dry wither'd Ram's horn the symbol | L |
| Of gloom and despondence the rest all are mute | E |
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| He laughs or he breaks into song but soon after | G |
| Tho' fain would he take in man's gladness a part | E |
| One hears low resounding athwart the gay laughter | G |
| The Suppliant's psalm and it pierces the heart | E |
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| I asked of my Muse had she any objection | A |
| To laughing with me not a word for reply | B |
| You see it is Sfere our time for dejection | A |
| And can a Jew laugh when the rule is to cry | B |
Morris Rosenfeld
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