Bigotry's Victim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCDDAE AFGHIGDDJJ AKCKCCDDLL MNENEEOOAA| I | A |
| Dares the lama most fleet of the sons of the wind | B |
| The lion to rouse from his skull covered lair | C |
| When the tiger approaches can the fast fleeting hind | B |
| Repose trust in his footsteps of air | C |
| No Abandoned he sinks in a trance of despair | C |
| The monster transfixes his prey | D |
| On the sand flows his life blood away | D |
| Whilst India's rocks to his death yells reply | A |
| Protracting the horrible harmony | E |
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| II | A |
| Yet the fowl of the desert when danger encroaches | F |
| Dares fearless to perish defending her brood | G |
| Though the fiercest of cloud piercing tyrants approaches | H |
| Thirsting ay thirsting for blood | I |
| And demands like mankind his brother for food | G |
| Yet more lenient more gentle than they | D |
| For hunger not glory the prey | D |
| Must perish Revenge does not howl in the dead | J |
| Nor ambition with fame crown the murderer s head | J |
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| III | A |
| Though weak as the lama that bounds on the mountains | K |
| And endued not with fast fleeting footsteps of air | C |
| Yet yet will I draw from the purest of fountains | K |
| Though a fiercer than tiger is there | C |
| Though more dreadful than death it scatters despair | C |
| Though its shadow eclipses the day | D |
| And the darkness of deepest dismay | D |
| Spreads the influence of soul chilling terror around | L |
| And lowers on the corpses that rot on the ground | L |
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| IV | M |
| They came to the fountain to draw from its stream | N |
| Waves too pure too celestial for mortals to see | E |
| They bathed for awhile in its silvery beam | N |
| Then perished and perished like me | E |
| For in vain from the grasp of the Bigot I flee | E |
| The most tenderly loved of my soul | O |
| Are slaves to his hated control | O |
| He pursues me he blasts me 'Tis in vain that I fly | A |
| What remains but to curse him to curse him and die | A |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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