Eclogue The Fourth Agib Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGG H DDFFIIJJ K LLBBMMNNHH H OOPPBBQQ K RR IISSTTUUHHVV H WXHHYY K HH HHZZYYHHLL YYYY| SCENE a Mountain in Circassia TIME Midnight | A |
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| In fair Circassia where to love inclined | B |
| Each swain was blest for every maid was kind | B |
| At that still hour when awful midnight reigns | C |
| And none but wretches haunt the twilight plains | C |
| What time the moon had hung her lamp on high | D |
| And passed in radiance through the cloudless sky | D |
| Sad o'er the dews two brother shepherds fled | E |
| Where wildering fear and desperate sorrow led | E |
| Fast as they pressed their flight behind them lay | F |
| Wide ravaged plains and valleys stole away | F |
| Along the mountain's bending sides they ran | G |
| Till faint and weak Secander thus began | G |
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| SECANDER | H |
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| O stay thee Agib for my feet deny | D |
| No longer friendly to my life to fly | D |
| Friend of my heart O turn thee and survey | F |
| Trace our sad flight through all its length of way | F |
| And first review that long extended plain | I |
| And yon wide groves already passed with pain | I |
| Yon ragged cliff whose dangerous path we tried | J |
| And last this lofty mountain's weary side | J |
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| AGIB | K |
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| Weak as thou art yet hapless must thou know | L |
| The toils of flight or some severer woe | L |
| Still as I haste the Tartar shouts behind | B |
| And shrieks and sorrows load the saddening wind | B |
| In rage of heart with ruin in his hand | M |
| He blasts our harvests and deforms our land | M |
| Yon citron grove whence first in fear we came | N |
| Droops its fair honours to the conquering flame | N |
| Far fly the swains like us in deep despair | H |
| And leave to ruffian bands their fleecy care | H |
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| SECANDER | H |
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| Unhappy land whose blessings tempt the sword | O |
| In vain unheard thou call'st thy Persian Lord | O |
| In vain thou court'st him helpless to thine aid | P |
| To shield the shepherd and protect the maid | P |
| Far off in thoughtless indolence resigned | B |
| Soft dreams of love and pleasure soothe his mind | B |
| Midst fair sultanas lost in idle joy | Q |
| No wars alarm him and no fears annoy | Q |
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| AGIB | K |
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| Yet these green hills in summer's sultry heat | R |
| Have lent the monarch oft a cool retreat | R |
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| Sweet to the sight is Zabran's flowery plain | I |
| And once by maids and shepherds loved in vain | I |
| No more the virgins shall delight to rove | S |
| By Sargis' banks or Irwan's shady grove | S |
| On Tarkie's mountain catch the cooling gale | T |
| Or breathe the sweets of Aly's flowery vale | T |
| Fair scenes but ah no more with peace possessed | U |
| With ease alluring and with plenty blest | U |
| No more the shepherds' whitening tents appear | H |
| Nor the kind products of a bounteous year | H |
| No more the date with snowy blossoms crowned | V |
| But Ruin spreads her baleful fires around | V |
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| SECANDER | H |
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| In vain Circassia boasts her spicy groves | W |
| For ever famed for pure and happy loves | X |
| In vain she boasts her fairest of the fair | H |
| Their eyes' blue languish and their golden hair | H |
| Those eyes in tears their fruitless grief must send | Y |
| Those hairs the Tartar's cruel hand shall rend | Y |
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| AGIB | K |
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| Ye Georgian swains that piteous learn from far | H |
| Circassia's ruin and the waste of war | H |
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| Some weightier arms than crooks and staves prepare | H |
| To shield your harvests and defend your fair | H |
| The Turk and Tartar like designs pursue | Z |
| Fixed to destroy and steadfast to undo | Z |
| Wild as his land in native deserts bred | Y |
| By lust incited or by malice led | Y |
| The villain Arab as he prowls for prey | H |
| Oft marks with blood and wasting flames the way | H |
| Yet none so cruel as the Tartar foe | L |
| To death inured and nursed in scenes of woe | L |
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| He said when loud along the vale was heard | Y |
| A shriller shriek and nearer fires appeared | Y |
| The affrighted shepherds through the dews of night | Y |
| Wide o'er the moonlight hills renewed their flight | Y |
William Collins
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