The Leap Of Roushan Beg Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFFE GGGHHG IIGHHG JJHGGH GGFHHB GGKGGK GGIHHB HHIHHB GGLMML GGINOI GGGPPG IIQGGQ RRSHHB| Mounted on Kyrat strong and fleet | A |
| His chestnut steed with four white feet | A |
| Roushan Beg called Kurroglou | B |
| Son of the road and bandit chief | C |
| Seeking refuge and relief | C |
| Up the mountain pathway flew | B |
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| Such was Kyrat's wondrous speed | D |
| Never yet could any steed | D |
| Reach the dust cloud in his course | E |
| More than maiden more than wife | F |
| More than gold and next to life | F |
| Roushan the Robber loved his horse | E |
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| In the land that lies beyond | G |
| Erzeroum and Trebizond | G |
| Garden girt his fortress stood | G |
| Plundered khan or caravan | H |
| Journeying north from Koordistan | H |
| Gave him wealth and wine and food | G |
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| Seven hundred and fourscore | I |
| Men at arms his livery wore | I |
| Did his bidding night and day | G |
| Now through regions all unknown | H |
| He was wandering lost alone | H |
| Seeking without guide his way | G |
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| Suddenly the pathway ends | J |
| Sheer the precipice descends | J |
| Loud the torrent roars unseen | H |
| Thirty feet from side to side | G |
| Yawns the chasm on air must ride | G |
| He who crosses this ravine | H |
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| Following close in his pursuit | G |
| At the precipice's foot | G |
| Reyhan the Arab of Orfah | F |
| Halted with his hundred men | H |
| Shouting upward from the glen | H |
| La Illah illa Allah | B |
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| Gently Roushan Beg caressed | G |
| Kyrat's forehead neck and breast | G |
| Kissed him upon both his eyes | K |
| Sang to him in his wild way | G |
| As upon the topmost spray | G |
| Sings a bird before it flies | K |
| - | |
| O my Kyrat O my steed | G |
| Round and slender as a reed | G |
| Carry me this peril through | I |
| Satin housings shall be thine | H |
| Shoes of gold O Kyrat mine | H |
| O thou soul of Kurroglou | B |
| - | |
| Soft thy skin as silken skein | H |
| Soft as woman's hair thy mane | H |
| Tender are thine eyes and true | I |
| All thy hoofs like ivory shine | H |
| Polished bright O life of mine | H |
| Leap and rescue Kurroglou | B |
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| Kyrat then the strong and fleet | G |
| Drew together his four white feet | G |
| Paused a moment on the verge | L |
| Measured with his eye the space | M |
| And into the air's embrace | M |
| Leaped as leaps the ocean surge | L |
| - | |
| As the ocean surge o'er sand | G |
| Bears a swimmer safe to land | G |
| Kyrat safe his rider bore | I |
| Rattling down the deep abyss | N |
| Fragments of the precipice | O |
| Rolled like pebbles on a shore | I |
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| Roushan's tasselled cap of red | G |
| Trembled not upon his head | G |
| Careless sat he and upright | G |
| Neither hand nor bridle shook | P |
| Nor his head he turned to look | P |
| As he galloped out of sight | G |
| - | |
| Flash of harness in the air | I |
| Seen a moment like the glare | I |
| Of a sword drawn from its sheath | Q |
| Thus the phantom horseman passed | G |
| And the shadow that he cast | G |
| Leaped the cataract underneath | Q |
| - | |
| Reyhan the Arab held his breath | R |
| While this vision of life and death | R |
| Passed above him Allahu | S |
| Cried he In all Koordistan | H |
| Lives there not so brave a man | H |
| As this Robber Kurroglou | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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