The Lover-s Sacrifice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CCDEFFGGHH I JJKLMMNNOO P OOQQOO| HERNANI Act II | A |
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| DONNA SOL Together let us fly | B |
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| HERNANI Together No the hour is past for flight | C |
| Dearest when first thy beauty smote my sight | C |
| I offered for the love that bade me live | D |
| Wretch that I was what misery had to give | E |
| My wood my stream my mountain Bolder grown | F |
| By thy compassion to an outlaw shown | F |
| The outlaw's meal beneath the forest shade | G |
| The outlaw's couch far in the greenwood glade | G |
| I offered Though to both that couch be free | H |
| I keep the scaffold block reserved for me | H |
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| DONNA SOL And yet you promised | I |
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| HERNANI falls on his knee Angel in this hour | J |
| Pursued by vengeance and oppressed by power | J |
| Even in this hour when death prepares to close | K |
| In shame and pain a destiny of woes | L |
| Yes I who from the world proscribed and cast | M |
| Have nursed one dark remembrance of the past | M |
| E'en from my birth in sorrow's garment clad | N |
| Have cause to smile and reason to be glad | N |
| For you have loved the outlaw and have shed | O |
| Your whispered blessings on his forfeit head | O |
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| DONNA SOL Let me go with you | P |
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| HERNANI No I will not rend | O |
| From its fair stem the flower as I descend | O |
| Go I have smelt its perfume Go resume | Q |
| All that this grasp has brushed away of bloom | Q |
| Wed the old man believe that ne'er we met | O |
| I seek my shade be happy and forget | O |
Victor Marie Hugo
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