The Retreat From Moscow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDGD HDHD IDID JKJK LDLD DBDB DDDD| Sad Moscow thy fate do I see | A |
| Fire fire in the city all cry | B |
| Like quails from the eagle all flee | A |
| Escape in a moment or die | B |
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| It looks like the battle of Troy | C |
| The storm rises higher and higher | D |
| The scene of destruction all hearts must annoy | C |
| The whirlwinds the smoke and the fire | D |
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| The dread conflagration rolls forth | E |
| Augmenting the rage of the wind | F |
| Which blows it from south unto north | E |
| And leaves but the embers behind | F |
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| It looks like Gomorrah the flame | G |
| Is moving still nigher and nigher | D |
| Aloud from all quarters the people proclaim | G |
| The whirlwinds the smoke and the fire | D |
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| A dead fumigation now swells | H |
| A blue circle darkens the air | D |
| With tones as the pealing of bells | H |
| Farewell to the brave and the fair | D |
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| O Moscow thou city of grace | I |
| Consign'd to a dread burning pyre | D |
| From morning to ev'ning with sorrow I trace | I |
| The wild winds the smoke and the fire | D |
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| The dogs in the kennel all howl | J |
| The wether takes flight with the ox | K |
| Appal'd on the wing is the fowl | J |
| The pigeon deserting her box | K |
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| With a heart full of pain in the night | L |
| Mid hillocks and bogs I retire | D |
| Through lone deadly vallies I steer by its light | L |
| The wild storm the smoke and the fire | D |
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| Though far the crash breaks on my ear | D |
| The stars glimmer dull in the sky | B |
| The shrieks of the women I hear | D |
| The fall of the kingdom is nigh | B |
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| heaven when earth is no more | D |
| And all things in nature expire | D |
| May I thus with safety keep distant before | D |
| The whirlwinds the smoke and the fire | D |
George Moses Horton
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