Liberty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCC ADEFEE AGHGHH IJKJKLL| I | A |
| The fiery mountains answer each other | B |
| Their thunderings are echoed from zone to zone | C |
| The tempestuous oceans awake one another | B |
| And the ice rocks are shaken round Winter's throne | C |
| When the clarion of the Typhoon is blown | C |
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| II | A |
| From a single cloud the lightening flashes | D |
| Whilst a thousand isles are illumined around | E |
| Earthquake is trampling one city to ashes | F |
| An hundred are shuddering and tottering the sound | E |
| Is bellowing underground | E |
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| III | A |
| But keener thy gaze than the lightening s glare | G |
| And swifter thy step than the earthquake s tramp | H |
| Thou deafenest the rage of the ocean thy stare | G |
| Makes blind the volcanoes the sun s bright lamp | H |
| To thine is a fen fire damp | H |
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| IV | I |
| From billow and mountain and exhalation | J |
| The sunlight is darted through vapour and blast | K |
| From spirit to spirit from nation to nation | J |
| From city to hamlet thy dawning is cast | K |
| And tyrants and slaves are like shadows of night | L |
| In the van of the morning light | L |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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