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The Island - Canto The Third. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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The fight was o'er the flashing through the gloom	B
Which robes the cannon as he wings a tomb	B
Had ceased and sulphury vapours upward driven	C
Had left the Earth and but polluted Heaven	C
The rattling roar which rung in every volley	D
Had left the echoes to their melancholy	D
No more they shrieked their horror boom for boom	B
The strife was done the vanquished had their doom	B
The mutineers were crushed dispersed or ta'en	E
Or lived to deem the happiest were the slain	F
Few few escaped and these were hunted o'er	G
The isle they loved beyond their native shore	H
No further home was theirs it seemed on earth	I
Once renegades to that which gave them birth	I
Tracked like wild beasts like them they sought the wild	J
As to a Mother's bosom flies the child	J
But vainly wolves and lions seek their den	E
And still more vainly men escape from men	E
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II	A
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Beneath a rock whose jutting base protrudes	K
Far over Ocean in its fiercest moods	K
When scaling his enormous crag the wave	L
Is hurled down headlong like the foremost brave	L
And falls back on the foaming crowd behind	M
Which fight beneath the banners of the wind	M
But now at rest a little remnant drew	N
Together bleeding thirsty faint and few	N
But still their weapons in their hands and still	O
With something of the pride of former will	O
As men not all unused to meditate	P
And strive much more than wonder at their fate	P
Their present lot was what they had foreseen	Q
And dared as what was likely to have been	R
Yet still the lingering hope which deemed their lot	S
Not pardoned but unsought for or forgot	S
Or trusted that if sought their distant caves	K
Might still be missed amidst the world of waves	K
Had weaned their thoughts in part from what they saw	K
And felt the vengeance of their country's law	K
Their sea green isle their guilt won Paradise	K
No more could shield their Virtue or their Vice	K
Their better feelings if such were were thrown	T
Back on themselves their sins remained alone	T
Proscribed even in their second country they	U
Were lost in vain the World before them lay	U
All outlets seemed secured Their new allies	K
Had fought and bled in mutual sacrifice	K
But what availed the club and spear and arm	V
Of Hercules against the sulphury charm	V
The magic of the thunder which destroyed	W
The warrior ere his strength could be employed	W
Dug like a spreading pestilence the grave	L
No less of human bravery than the brave	L
Their own scant numbers acted all the few	N
Against the many oft will dare and do	N
But though the choice seems native to die free	D
Even Greece can boast but one Thermopyl	U
Till now when she has forged her broken chain	F
Back to a sword and dies and lives again	E
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III	A
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Beside the jutting rock the few appeared	X
Like the last remnant of the red deer's herd	Y
Their eyes were feverish and their aspect worn	Z
But still the hunter's blood was on their horn	Z
A little stream came tumbling from the height	A2
And straggling into ocean as it might	A2
Its bounding crystal frolicked in the ray	U
And gushed from cliff to crag with saltless spray	U
Close on the wild wide ocean yet as pure	B2
And fresh as Innocence and more secure	B2
Its silver torrent glittered o'er the deep	C2
As the shy chamois' eye o'erlooks the steep	C2
While far below the vast and sullen swell	U
Of Ocean's alpine azure rose and fell	U
To this young spring they rushed all feelings first	D2
Absorbed in Passion's and in Nature's thirst	D2
Drank as they do who drink their last and threw	N
Their arms aside to revel in its dew	N
Cooled their scorched throats and washed the gory stains	K
From wounds whose only bandage might be chains	K
Then when their drought was quenched looked sadly round	E2
As wondering how so many still were found	E2
Alive and fetterless but silent all	U
Each sought his fellow's eyes as if to call	U
On him for language which his lips denied	F2
As though their voices with their cause had died	F2
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IV	N
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Stern and aloof a little from the rest	G2
Stood Christian with his arms across his chest	G2
The ruddy reckless dauntless hue once spread	H2
Along his cheek was livid now as lead	H2
His light brown locks so graceful in their flow	U
Now rose like startled vipers o'er his brow	I2
Still as a statue with his lips comprest	H2
To stifle even the breath within his breast	H2
Fast by the rock all menacing but mute	H2
He stood and save a slight beat of his foot	H2
Which deepened now and then the sandy dint	H2
Beneath his heel his form seemed turned to flint	H2
Some paces further Torquil leaned his head	H2
Against a bank and spoke not but he bled	H2
Not mortally his worst wound was within	R
His brow was pale his blue eyes sunken in	R
And blood drops sprinkled o'er his yellow hair	J2
Showed that his faintness came not from despair	J2
But Nature's ebb Beside him was another	G
Rough as a bear but willing as a brother	G
Ben Bunting who essayed to wash and wipe	K2
And bind his wound then calmly lit his pipe	K2
A trophy which survived a hundred fights	K
A beacon which had cheered ten thousand nights	K
The fourth and last of this deserted group	L2
Walked up and down at times would stand then stoop	L2
To pick a pebble up then let it drop	M2
Then hurry as in haste then quickly stop	M2
Then cast his eyes on his companions then	E
Half whistle half a tune and pause again	E
And then his former movements would redouble	U
With something between carelessness and trouble	U
This is a long description but applies	K
To scarce five minutes passed before the eyes	K
But yet what minutes Moments like to these	K
Rend men's lives into immortalities	K
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V	N
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At length Jack Skyscrape a mercurial man	N2
Who fluttered over all things like a fan	N2
More brave than firm and more disposed to dare	J2
And die at once than wrestle with despair	J2
Exclaimed G d damn those syllables intense	K
Nucleus of England's native eloquence	K
As the Turk's Allah or the Roman's more	H
Pagan Proh Jupiter was wont of yore	H
To give their first impressions such a vent	H2
By way of echo to embarrassment fq	O2
Jack was embarrassed never hero more	H
And as he knew not what to say he swore	H
Nor swore in vain the long congenial sound	H2
Revived Ben Bunting from his pipe profound	H2
He drew it from his mouth and looked full wise	K
But merely added to the oath his eyes	K
Thus rendering the imperfect phrase complete	H2
A peroration I need not repeat	H2
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VI	N
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But Christian of a higher order stood	H2
Like an extinct volcano in his mood	H2
Silent and sad and savage with the trace	K
Of passion reeking from his clouded face	K
Till lifting up again his sombre eye	N
It glanced on Torquil who leaned faintly by	N
And is it thus he cried unhappy boy	P2
And thee too thee my madness must destroy	P2
He said and strode to where young Torquil stood	H2
Yet dabbled with his lately flowing blood	H2
Seized his hand wistfully but did not press	K
And shrunk as fearful of his own caress	K
Enquired into his state and when he heard	H2
The wound was slighter than he deemed or feared	H2
A moment's brightness passed along his brow	I2
As much as such a moment would allow	I2
Yes he exclaimed we are taken in the toil	U
But not a coward or a common spoil	U
Dearly they have bought us dearly still may buy	N
And I must fall but have you strength to fly	N
'Twould be some comfort still could you survive	N
Our dwindled band is now too few to strive	N
Oh for a sole canoe though but a shell	U
To bear you hence to where a hope may dwell	U
For me my lot is what I sought to be	N
In life or death the fearless and the free	N
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VII	N
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Even as he spoke around the promontory	N
Which nodded o'er the billows high and hoary	N
A dark speck dotted Ocean on it flew	N
Like to the shadow of a roused sea mew	N
Onward it came and lo a second followed	H2
Now seen now hid where Ocean's vale was hollowed	H2
And near and nearer till the dusky crew	N
Presented well known aspects to the view	N
Till on the surf their skimming paddles play	U
Buoyant as wings and flitting through the spray	U
Now perching on the wave's high curl and now	I2
Dashed downward in the thundering foam below	U
Which flings it broad and boiling sheet on sheet	H2
And slings its high flakes shivered into sleet	H2
But floating still through surf and swell drew nigh	N
The barks like small birds through a lowering sky	N
Their art seemed nature such the skill to sweep	C2
The wave of these born playmates of the deep	C2
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VIII	N
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And who the first that springing on the strand	H2
Leaped like a Nereid from her shell to land	H2
With dark but brilliant skin and dewy eye	N
Shining with love and hope and constancy	N
Neuha the fond the faithful the adored	H2
Her heart on Torquil's like a torrent poured	H2
And smiled and wept and near and nearer clasped	H2
As if to be assured 'twas him she grasped	H2
Shuddered to see his yet warm wound and then	E
To find it trivial smiled and wept again	E
She was a warrior's daughter and could bear	N
Such sights and feel and mourn but not despair	N
Her lover lived nor foes nor fears could blight	H2
That full blown moment in its all delight	H2
Joy trickled in her tears joy filled the sob	Q2
That rocked her heart till almost heard to throb	Q2
And Paradise was breathing in the sigh	N
Of Nature's child in Nature's ecstasy	N
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IX	N
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The sterner spirits who beheld that meeting	O2
Were not unmoved who are when hearts are greeting	O2
Even Christian gazed upon the maid and boy	P2
With tearless eye but yet a gloomy joy	P2
Mixed with those bitter thoughts the soul arrays	N
In hopeless visions of our better days	N
When all's gone to the rainbow's latest ray	U
And but for me he said and turned away	U
Then gazed upon the pair as in his den	E
A lion looks upon his cubs again	E
And then relapsed into his sullen guise	N
As heedless of his further destinies	N
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X	N
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But brief their time for good or evil thought	H2
The billows round the promontory brought	H2
The plash of hostile oars Alas who made	H2
That sound a dread All around them seemed arrayed	H2
Against them save the bride of Toobonai	E
She as she caught the first glimpse o'er the bay	U
Of the armed boats which hurried to complete	H2
The remnant's ruin with their flying feet fr	U
Beckoned the natives round her to their prows	N
Embarked their guests and launched their light canoes	N
In one placed Christian and his comrades twain	E
But she and Torquil must not part again	E
She fixed him in her own Away away	U
They cleared the breakers dart along the bay	U
And towards a group of islets such as bear	U
The sea bird's nest and seal's surf hollowed lair	U
They skim the blue tops of the billows fast	H2
They flew and fast their fierce pursuers chased	H2
They gain upon them now they lose again	E
Again make way and menace o'er the main	E
And now the two canoes in chase divide	H2
And follow different courses o'er the tide	H2
To baffle the pursuit Away away	U
As Life is on each paddle's flight to day	U
And more than Life or lives to Neuha Love	N
Freights the frail bark and urges to the cove	N
And now the refuge and the foe are nigh	N
Yet yet a moment Fly thou light ark fly	N