Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBC ADEDDE AFGFFG EHIHHC| I | A |
| As from an ancestral oak | B |
| Two empty ravens sound their clarion | C |
| Yell by yell and croak by croak | B |
| When they scent the noonday smoke | B |
| Of fresh human carrion | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| As two gibbering night birds flit | D |
| From their bowers of deadly yew | E |
| Through the night to frighten it | D |
| When the moon is in a fit | D |
| And the stars are none or few | E |
| - | |
| III | A |
| As a shark and dog fish wait | F |
| Under an Atlantic isle | G |
| For the negro ship whose freight | F |
| Is the theme of their debate | F |
| Wrinkling their red gills the while | G |
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| IV | E |
| Are ye two vultures sick for battle | H |
| Two scorpions under one wet stone | I |
| Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle | H |
| Two crows perched on the murrained cattle | H |
| Two vipers tangled into one | C |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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