Sonnet Xliii: The Unhappy Exile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACAAAADDAEE| The unhappy exile whom his fates confine | A |
| To the bleak coast of some unfriendly isle | B |
| Cold barren desart where no harvests smile | B |
| But thirst and hunger on the rocks repine | A |
| When from some promontory's fearful brow | C |
| Sun after sun he hopeless sees decline | A |
| In the broad shipless sea perhaps may know | A |
| Such heartless pain such blank despair as mine | A |
| And if a flattering cloud appears to show | A |
| The fancied semblance of a distant sail | D |
| Then melts away anew his spirits fail | D |
| While the lost hope but aggravates his woe | A |
| Ah so for me delusive Fancy toils | E |
| Then from contrasted truth my feeble soul recoils | E |
Charlotte Smith
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