Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCC CDCEFGDCCHIJKLMCNOEP QRSTCUCVCCCCWCXCYZCC A2B2CC2D2CE2

Descriptive of the miseries of War from a PoemA
called 'The Emigrants ' printed inB
TO a wild mountain whose bare summit hidesC
Its broken eminence in clouds whose steepsC
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Are dark with woods where the receding rocksC
Are worn with torrents of dissolving snowD
A wretched woman pale and breathless fliesC
And gazing round her listens to the soundE
Of hostile footsteps No they die awayF
Nor noise remains but of the cataractG
Or surly breeze of night that mutters lowD
Among the thickets where she trembling seeksC
A temporary shelter Clasping closeC
To her quick throbbing heart her sleeping childH
All she could rescue of the innocent groupI
That yesterday surrounded her EscapedJ
Almost by miracle Fear frantic FearK
Wing'd her weak feet yet half repenting nowL
Her headlong haste she wishes she had staidM
To die with those affrighted Fancy paintsC
The lawless soldiers' victims Hark againN
The driving tempest bears the cry of DeathO
And with deep sudden thunder the dread soundE
Of cannon vibrates on the tremulous earthP
While bursting in the air the murderous bombQ
Glares o'er her mansion Where the splinters fallR
Like scatter'd comets its destructive pathS
Is mark'd by wreaths of flame Then overwhelm'dT
Beneath accumulated horror sinksC
The desolate mournerU
The feudal chief whose gothic battlementsC
Frown on the plain beneath returning homeV
From distant lands alone and in disguiseC
Gains at the fall of night his castle wallsC
But at the silent gate no porter sitsC
To wait his lord's admittance In the courtsC
All is drear stillness Guessing but too wellW
The fatal truth he shudders as he goesC
Through the mute hall where by the blunted lightX
That the dim moon through painted casement lendsC
He sees that devastation has been thereY
Then while each hideous image to his mindZ
Rises terrific o'er a bleeding corseC
Stumbling he falls another interceptsC
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His staggering feet All all who used toA2
With joy to meet him all his familyB2
Lie murder'd in his way And the day dawnsC
On a wild raving maniac whom a fateC2
So sudden and calamitous has robb'dD2
Of reason and who round his vacant wallsC
Screams unregarded and reproaches HeavenE2

Charlotte Smith



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