Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC CDCEFGDCCHIJKLMCNOEP QRSTCUCVCCCCWCXCYZCC A2B2CC2D2CE2| Descriptive of the miseries of War from a Poem | A |
| called 'The Emigrants ' printed in | B |
| TO a wild mountain whose bare summit hides | C |
| Its broken eminence in clouds whose steeps | C |
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| Are dark with woods where the receding rocks | C |
| Are worn with torrents of dissolving snow | D |
| A wretched woman pale and breathless flies | C |
| And gazing round her listens to the sound | E |
| Of hostile footsteps No they die away | F |
| Nor noise remains but of the cataract | G |
| Or surly breeze of night that mutters low | D |
| Among the thickets where she trembling seeks | C |
| A temporary shelter Clasping close | C |
| To her quick throbbing heart her sleeping child | H |
| All she could rescue of the innocent group | I |
| That yesterday surrounded her Escaped | J |
| Almost by miracle Fear frantic Fear | K |
| Wing'd her weak feet yet half repenting now | L |
| Her headlong haste she wishes she had staid | M |
| To die with those affrighted Fancy paints | C |
| The lawless soldiers' victims Hark again | N |
| The driving tempest bears the cry of Death | O |
| And with deep sudden thunder the dread sound | E |
| Of cannon vibrates on the tremulous earth | P |
| While bursting in the air the murderous bomb | Q |
| Glares o'er her mansion Where the splinters fall | R |
| Like scatter'd comets its destructive path | S |
| Is mark'd by wreaths of flame Then overwhelm'd | T |
| Beneath accumulated horror sinks | C |
| The desolate mourner | U |
| The feudal chief whose gothic battlements | C |
| Frown on the plain beneath returning home | V |
| From distant lands alone and in disguise | C |
| Gains at the fall of night his castle walls | C |
| But at the silent gate no porter sits | C |
| To wait his lord's admittance In the courts | C |
| All is drear stillness Guessing but too well | W |
| The fatal truth he shudders as he goes | C |
| Through the mute hall where by the blunted light | X |
| That the dim moon through painted casement lends | C |
| He sees that devastation has been there | Y |
| Then while each hideous image to his mind | Z |
| Rises terrific o'er a bleeding corse | C |
| Stumbling he falls another intercepts | C |
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| His staggering feet All all who used to | A2 |
| With joy to meet him all his family | B2 |
| Lie murder'd in his way And the day dawns | C |
| On a wild raving maniac whom a fate | C2 |
| So sudden and calamitous has robb'd | D2 |
| Of reason and who round his vacant walls | C |
| Screams unregarded and reproaches Heaven | E2 |
Charlotte Smith
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