The Old And The Young Bridegroom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKILIMINOPQI G R ISITUVGIRWXYIGZA2IB2 C2D2KGM R IE2RU E2I| HERNANI Act I | A |
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| Listen The man for whom your youth is destined | B |
| Your uncle Ruy de Silva is the Duke | C |
| Of Pastrana Count of Castile and Aragon | D |
| For lack of youth he brings you dearest girl | E |
| Treasures of gold jewels and precious gems | F |
| With which your brow might outshine royalty | G |
| And for rank pride splendor and opulence | H |
| Might many a queen be envious of his duchess | I |
| Here is one picture I am poor my youth | J |
| I passed i' the woods a barefoot fugitive | K |
| My shield perchance may bear some noble blazons | I |
| Spotted with blood defaced though not dishonored | L |
| Perchance I too have rights now veiled in darkness | I |
| Rights which the heavy drapery of the scaffold | M |
| Now hides beneath its black and ample folds | I |
| Rights which if my intent deceive me not | N |
| My sword shall one day rescue To be brief | O |
| I have received from churlish Fortune nothing | P |
| But air light water Nature's general boon | Q |
| Choose then between us two for you must choose | I |
| Say will you wed the duke or follow me | G |
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| DONNA SOL I'll follow you | R |
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| HERN What 'mongst my rude companions | I |
| Whose names are registered in the hangman's book | S |
| Whose hearts are ever eager as their swords | I |
| Edged by a personal impulse of revenge | T |
| Will you become the queen dear of my band | U |
| Will you become a hunted outlaw's bride | V |
| When all Spain else pursued and banished me | G |
| In her proud forests and air piercing mountains | I |
| And rocks the lordly eagle only knew | R |
| Old Catalonia took me to her bosom | W |
| Among her mountaineers free poor and brave | X |
| I ripened into manhood and to morrow | Y |
| One blast upon my horn among her hills | I |
| Would draw three thousand of her sons around me | G |
| You shudder think upon it Will you tread | Z |
| The shores woods mountains with me among men | A2 |
| Like the dark spirits of your haunted dreams | I |
| Suspect all eyes all voices every footstep | B2 |
| Sleep on the grass drink of the torrent hear | C2 |
| By night the sharp hiss of the musket ball | D2 |
| Whistling too near your ear a fugitive | K |
| Proscribed and doomed mayhap to follow me | G |
| In the path leading to my father's scaffold | M |
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| DONNA SOL I'll follow you | R |
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| HERN This duke is rich great prosperous | I |
| No blot attaches to his ancient name | E2 |
| He is all powerful He offers you | R |
| His treasures titles honors with his hand | U |
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| DONNA SOL We will depart to morrow Do not blame | E2 |
| What may appear a most unwomanly boldness | I |
Victor Marie Hugo
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