The Fugitives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBC BBBBC DDEFC AGGH I J KLI MNOOI A II PPPPH DDQRH STTDDU VVPPU WWOOU| I | A |
| The waters are flashing | B |
| The white hail is dashing | B |
| The lightnings are glancing | B |
| The hoar spray is dancing | B |
| Away | C |
| - | |
| The whirlwind is rolling | B |
| The thunder is tolling | B |
| The forest is swinging | B |
| The minster bells ringing | B |
| Come away | C |
| - | |
| The Earth is like Ocean | D |
| Wreck strewn and in motion | D |
| Bird beast man and worm | E |
| Have crept out of the storm | F |
| Come away | C |
| - | |
| II | A |
| 'Our boat has one sail | G |
| And the helmsman is pale | G |
| A bold pilot I trow | H |
| Who should follow us now ' | - |
| Shouted he | I |
| - | |
| And she cried 'Ply the oar | J |
| Put off gaily from shore ' | - |
| As she spoke bolts of death | K |
| Mixed with hail specked their path | L |
| O er the sea | I |
| - | |
| And from isle tower and rock | M |
| The blue beacon cloud broke | N |
| And though dumb in the blast | O |
| The red cannon flashed fast | O |
| From the lee | I |
| - | |
| III | A |
| And 'Fear'st thou ' and 'Fear'st thou ' | - |
| And Seest thou ' and 'Hear'st thou ' | - |
| And 'Drive we not free | I |
| O'er the terrible sea | I |
| I and thou ' | - |
| - | |
| One boat cloak did cover | P |
| The loved and the lover | P |
| Their blood beats one measure | P |
| They murmur proud pleasure | P |
| Soft and low | H |
| - | |
| While around the lashed Ocean | D |
| Like mountains in motion | D |
| Is withdrawn and uplifted | Q |
| Sunk shattered and shifted | R |
| To and fro | H |
| - | |
| IV | S |
| In the court of the fortress | T |
| Beside the pale portress | T |
| Like a bloodhound well beaten | D |
| The bridegroom stands eaten | D |
| By shame | U |
| - | |
| On the topmost watch turret | V |
| As a death boding spirit | V |
| Stands the gray tyrant father | P |
| To his voice the mad weather | P |
| Seems tame | U |
| - | |
| And with curses as wild | W |
| As e er clung to child | W |
| He devotes to the blast | O |
| The best loveliest and last | O |
| Of his name | U |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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