Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC CDCEFGDCCHIJKLMCNOEP QRSTCUCVCCCCWCXCYZCC A2B2CC2D2CE2Descriptive 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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