Danube And The Euxine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG FHEHIJCJKJLJJFLFMNON FPLPPFJFQJJJLFLFKRPP PJSJPPLPLJFJTFJFUJF| 'Danube Danube wherefore com'st thou | A |
| Red and raging to my caves | B |
| Wherefore leap thy swollen waters | C |
| Madly through the broken waves | B |
| Wherefore is thy tide so sullied | D |
| With a hue unknown to me | E |
| Wherefore dost thou bring pollution | F |
| To the old and sacred sea ' | G |
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| 'Ha rejoice old Father Euxine | F |
| I am brimming full and red | H |
| Noble tidings do I carry | E |
| From my distant channel bed | H |
| I have been a Christian river | I |
| Dull and slow this many a year | J |
| Rolling down my torpid waters | C |
| Through a silence morne and drear | J |
| Have not felt the tread of armies | K |
| Trampling on my reedy shore | J |
| Have not heard the trumpet calling | L |
| Or the cannon's gladsome roar | J |
| Only listened to the laughter | J |
| From the village and the town | F |
| And the church bells ever jangling | L |
| As the weary day went down | F |
| So I lay and sorely pondered | M |
| On the days long since gone by | N |
| When my old prim val forests | O |
| Echoed to the war man's cry | N |
| When the race of Thor and Odin | F |
| Held their battles by my side | P |
| And the blood of man was mingling | L |
| Warmly with my chilly tide | P |
| Father Euxine thou rememb'rest | P |
| How I brought thee tribute then | F |
| Swollen corpses gashed and gory | J |
| Heads and limbs of slaughter'd men | F |
| Father Euxine be thou joyful | Q |
| I am running red once more | J |
| Not with heathen blood as early | J |
| But with gallant Christian gore | J |
| For the old times are returning | L |
| And the Cross is broken down | F |
| And I hear the tocsin sounding | L |
| In the village and the town | F |
| And the glare of burning cities | K |
| Soon shall light me on my way | R |
| Ha my heart is big and jocund | P |
| With the draught I drank to day | P |
| Ha I feel my strength awakened | P |
| And my brethren shout to me | J |
| Each is leaping red and joyous | S |
| To his own awaiting sea | J |
| Rhine and Elbe are plunging downward | P |
| Through their wild anarchic land | P |
| Everywhere are Christians falling | L |
| By their brother Christians' hand | P |
| Yea the old times are returning | L |
| And the olden gods are here | J |
| Take my tribute Father Euxine | F |
| To thy waters dark and drear | J |
| Therefore come I with my torrents | T |
| Shaking castle crag and town | F |
| Therefore with the shout of thunder | J |
| Sweep I herd and herdsman down | F |
| Therefore leap I to thy bosom | U |
| With a loud triumphal roar | J |
| Greet me greet me Father Euxine | F |
| I am Christian stream no more ' | - |
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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