The Exile's Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABAAB CDAEEA FFGHHG AAIJJI KKLHHL MMGNLG OOPOOP QQRSSR| Since justice slumbers in the abysm | A |
| Since the crime's crowned with despotism | A |
| Since all most upright souls are smitten | B |
| Since proudest souls are bowed for shame | A |
| Since on the walls in lines of flame | A |
| My country's dark dishonour's written | B |
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| O grand Republic of our sires | C |
| Pantheon filled with sacred fires | D |
| In the free azure golden dome | A |
| Temple with shades immortal thronged | E |
| Since thus thy glory they have wronged | E |
| With 'Empire' staining Freedom's home | A |
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| Since in my country each soul born | F |
| Is base since there are laughed to scorn | F |
| The true the pure the great the brave | G |
| The indignant eyes of history | H |
| Honour law right and liberty | H |
| And those alas within the grave | G |
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| Solitude exile I love them | A |
| Sorrow be thou my diadem | A |
| Poverty love I for 't is pride | I |
| My rugged home winds beat upon | J |
| And even that awful Statue wan | J |
| Aye seated silent by my side | I |
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| I love the woe that proves me strong | K |
| That shadow of fate which all ye throng | K |
| O ye to whom high hearts aye bow | L |
| Faith Virtue veiled stern Dignity | H |
| And thou proud Exile Liberty | H |
| And nobler yet Devotion thou | L |
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| I love this islet lonely bold | M |
| Jersey whereover England's old | M |
| Free banner doth the storm blast brave | G |
| Yon darkling ocean's ebb and flow | N |
| Its vessels each a wandering plough | L |
| Whose mystic furrow is the wave | G |
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| I love thy gull with snowy wing | O |
| In pearls to the wind blithe scattering | O |
| O ocean vast thy sunny spray | P |
| Who darts beneath hugh billows gaping | O |
| Soon from those monstrous throats escaping | O |
| As a soul from sorrow flits away | P |
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| I love the rock how solemn stern | Q |
| Thence hearkening aye the plaint eterne | Q |
| On the wild air around me shed | R |
| Ever the sullen night outpours | S |
| Of waves that sob on sombre shores | S |
| Of mothers mourning children dead | R |
Victor Marie Hugo
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