Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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To William Shelley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDEE AFGHGIIGG AJKJKLLGG MNONPQQQQ QDDDDRRQQQ MQSQQQTDDUUU

IA
The billows on the beach are leaping around itB
The bark is weak and frailC
The sea looks black and the clouds that bound itB
Darkly strew the galeC
Come with me thou delightful childD
Come with me though the wave is wildD
And the winds are loose we must not stayE
Or the slaves of the law may rend thee awayE
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IIA
They have taken thy brother and sister dearF
They have made them unfit for theeG
They have withered the smile and dried the tearH
Which should have been sacred to meG
To a blighting faith and a cause of crimeI
They have bound them slaves in youthly primeI
And they will curse my name and theeG
Because we fearless are and freeG
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IIIA
Come thou beloved as thou artJ
Another sleepeth stillK
Near thy sweet mother s anxious heartJ
Which thou with joy shalt fillK
With fairest smiles of wonder thrownL
On that which is indeed our ownL
And which in distant lands will beG
The dearest playmate unto theeG
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IVM
Fear not the tyrants will rule for everN
Or the priests of the evil faithO
They stand on the brink of that raging riverN
Whose waves they have tainted with deathP
It is fed from the depth of a thousand dellsQ
Around them it foams and rages and swellsQ
And their swords and their sceptres I floating seeQ
Like wrecks on the surge of eternityQ
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VQ
Rest rest and shriek not thou gentle childD
The rocking of the boat thou fearestD
And the cold spray and the clamour wildD
There sit between us two thou dearestD
Me and thy mother well we knowR
The storm at which thou tremblest soR
With all its dark and hungry gravesQ
Less cruel than the savage slavesQ
Who hunt us o er these sheltering wavesQ
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VIM
This hour will in thy memoryQ
Be a dream of days forgotten longS
We soon shall dwell by the azure seaQ
Of serene and golden ItalyQ
Or Greece the Mother of the freeQ
And I will teach thine infant tongueT
To call upon those heroes oldD
In their own language and will mouldD
Thy growing spirit in the flameU
Of Grecian lore that by such nameU
A patriot s birthright thou mayst claimU

Percy Bysshe Shelley



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