The Fugitive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FFGHHH IIJKKL HHMMFNOF KKPQQP RSRS HHHH| The air is perfumed with the morning's fresh breeze | A |
| From the bush peer the sunbeams all purple and bright | B |
| While they gleam through the clefts of the dark waving trees | A |
| And the cloud crested mountains are golden with light | B |
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| With joyful melodious ravishing strain | C |
| The lark as he wakens salutes the glad sun | D |
| Who glows in the arms of Aurora again | E |
| And blissfully smiling his race 'gins to run | D |
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| All hail light of day | F |
| Thy sweet gushing ray | F |
| Pours down its soft warmth over pasture and field | G |
| With hues silver tinged | H |
| The meadows are fringed | H |
| And numberless suns in the dewdrop revealed | H |
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| Young Nature invades | I |
| The whispering shades | I |
| Displaying each ravishing charm | J |
| The soft zephyr blows | K |
| And kisses the rose | K |
| The plain is sweet scented with balm | L |
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| How high from yon city the smoke clouds ascend | H |
| Their neighing and snorting and bellowing blend | H |
| The horses and cattle | M |
| The chariot wheels rattle | M |
| As down to the valley they take their mad way | F |
| And even the forest where life seems to move | N |
| The eagle and falcon and hawk soar above | O |
| And flutter their pinions in heaven's bright ray | F |
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| In search of repose | K |
| From my heart rending woes | K |
| Oh where shall my sad spirit flee | P |
| The earth's smiling face | Q |
| With its sweet youthful grace | Q |
| A tomb must alas be for me | P |
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| Arise then thou sunlight of morning and fling | R |
| O'er plain and o'er forest thy purple dyed beams | S |
| Thou twilight of evening all noiselessly sing | R |
| In melody soft to the world as it dreams | S |
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| Ah sunlight of morning to me thou but flingest | H |
| Thy purple dyed beams o'er the grave of the past | H |
| Ah twilight of evening thy strains thou but singest | H |
| To one whose deep slumbers forever must last | H |
Friedrich Schiller
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