The Fugitive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNONPQRS TUVWXY ZA2UB2C2D2E2NF2G2 H2D2NI2J2K2L2M2N2O2N P2O2 Q2DO2R2SANNNS2T2U2E2 O2SV2O2W2X2O2 XY2Z2A3AF2D2B3Oft have I seen yon Solitary Man | A |
Pacing the upland meadow On his brow | B |
Sits melancholy mark'd with decent pride | C |
As it would fly the busy taunting world | D |
And feed upon reflection Sometimes near | E |
The foot of an old Tree he takes his seat | F |
And with the page of legendary lore | G |
Cheats the dull hour while Evening's sober eye | H |
Looks tearful as it closes In the dell | I |
By the swift brook he loiters sad and mute | J |
Save when a struggling sigh half murmur'd steals | K |
From his wrung bosom To the rising moon | L |
His eye rais'd wistfully expression fraught | M |
He pours the cherish'd anguish of his Soul | N |
Silent yet eloquent For not a sound | O |
That might alarm the night's lone centinel | N |
The dull eyed Owl escapes his trembling lip | P |
Unapt in supplication He is young | Q |
And yet the stamp of thought so tempers youth | R |
That all its fires are faded What is He | S |
And why when morning sails upon the breeze | T |
Fanning the blue hill's summit does he stay | U |
Loit'ring and sullen like a Truant boy | V |
Beside the woodland glen or stretch'd along | W |
On the green slope watch his slow wasting form | X |
Reflected trembling on the river's breast | Y |
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His garb is coarse and threadbare and his cheek | Z |
Is prematurely faded The check'd tear | A2 |
Dimming his dark eye's lustre seems to say | U |
This world is now to me a barren waste | B2 |
A desart full of weeds and wounding thorns | C2 |
And I am weary for my journey here | D2 |
Has been though short but chearless Is it so | E2 |
Poor Traveller Oh tell me tell me all | N |
For I like thee am but a Fugitive | F2 |
An alien from delight in this dark scene | G2 |
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And now I mark thy features I behold | H2 |
The cause of thy complaining Thou art here | D2 |
A persecuted Exile one whose soul | N |
Unbow'd by guilt demands no patronage | I2 |
From blunted feeling or the frozen hand | J2 |
Of gilded Ostentation Thou poor PRIEST | K2 |
Art here a Stranger from thy kindred torn | L2 |
Thy kindred massacred thy quiet home | M2 |
The rural palace of some village scant | N2 |
Shelter'd by vineyards skirted by fair meads | O2 |
And by the music of a shallow rill | N |
Made ever chearful now thou hast exchang'd | P2 |
For stranger woods and vallies | O2 |
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What of that | Q2 |
Here or on torrid desarts o'er the world | D |
Of trackless waves or on the frozen cliffs | O2 |
Of black Siberia thou art not alone | R2 |
For there on each on all The DEITY | S |
Is thy companion still Then exiled MAN | A |
Be chearful as the Lark that o'er yon hill | N |
In Nature's language wild yet musical | N |
Hails the Creator nor thus sullenly | N |
Repine that through the day the sunny beam | S2 |
Of lust'rous fortune gilds the palace roof | T2 |
While thy short path in this wild labyrinth | U2 |
Is lost in transient shadow | E2 |
Who that lives | O2 |
Hath not his portion of calamity | S |
Who that feels can boast a tranquil bosom | V2 |
The fever throbbing in the Tyrant's veins | O2 |
In quick strong language tells the daring wretch | W2 |
That He is mortal like the poorest slave | X2 |
Who wears his chain yet healthfully suspires | O2 |
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The sweetest Rose will wither while the storm | X |
Passes the mountain thistle The bold Bird | Y2 |
Whose strong eye braves the ever burning Orb | Z2 |
Falls like the Summer Fly and has at most | A3 |
But his allotted sojourn EXILED MAN | A |
Be chearful Thou art not a fugitive | F2 |
All are thy kindred all thy brothers here | D2 |
The hoping trembling Creatures of one GOD | B3 |
Mary Darby Robinson
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