The Russian Fugitive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ENOUGH of rose bud lips and eyesB
Like harebells bathed in dewC
Of cheek that with carnation viesB
And veins of violet hueC
Earth wants not beauty that may scornD
A likening to frail flowersE
Yea to the stars if they were bornD
For seasons and for hoursE
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Through Moscow's gates with gold unbarredC
Stepped One at dead of nightC
Whom such high beauty could not guardC
From meditated blightC
By stealth she passed and fled as fastC
As doth the hunted fawnF
Nor stopped till in the dappling eastC
Appeared unwelcome dawnF
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Seven days she lurked in brake and fieldC
Seven nights her course renewedC
Sustained by what her scrip might yieldC
Or berries of the woodC
At length in darkness travelling onG
When lowly doors were shutC
The haven of her hope she wonH
Her foster mother's hutC
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'To put your love to dangerous proofI
I come ' said she 'from farJ
For I have left my Father's roofI
In terror of the czar '-
No answer did the Matron giveK
No second look she castC
But hung upon the fugitiveK
Embracing and embracedC
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She led the Lady to a seatC
Beside the glimmering fireL
Bathed duteously her wayworn feetC
Prevented each desireL
The cricket chirped the house dog dozedC
And on that simple bedC
Where she in childhood had reposedC
Now rests her weary headC
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When she whose couch had been the sodC
Whose curtain pine or thornD
Had breathed a sigh of thanks to GodC
Who comforts the forlornD
While over her the Matron bentC
Sleep sealed her eyes and stoleM
Feeling from limbs with travel spentC
And trouble from the soulM
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Refreshed the Wanderer rose at mornD
And soon again was dightC
In those unworthy vestments wornD
Through long and perilous flightC
And 'O beloved Nurse ' she saidC
'My thanks with silent tearsN
Have unto Heaven and You been paidC
Now listen to my fearsO
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'Have you forgot' and here she smiledC
'The babbling flatteriesO
You lavished on me when a childC
Disporting round your kneesO
I was your lambkin and your birdC
Your star your gem your flowerL
Light words that were more lightly heardC
In many a cloudless hourL
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'The blossom you so fondly praisedC
Is come to bitter fruitC
A mighty One upon me gazedC
I spurned his lawless suitC
And must be hidden from his wrathP
You Foster father dearQ
Will guide me in my forward pathP
I may not tarry hereR
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'I cannot bring to utter woeS
Your proved fidelity '-
'Dear Child sweet Mistress say not soS
For you we both would die '-
'Nay nay I come with semblance feignedC
And cheek embrowned by artC
Yet being inwardly unstainedC
With courage will depart '-
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'But whither would you could you fleeT
A poor Man's counsel takeU
The Holy Virgin gives to meT
A thought for your dear sakeU
Rest shielded by our Lady's graceO
And soon shall you be ledC
Forth to a safe abiding placeO
Where never foot doth tread '-
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IIA
THE dwelling of this faithful pairV
In a straggling village stoodC
For One who breathed unquiet airV
A dangerous neighbourhoodC
But wide around lay forest groundC
With thickets rough and blindC
And pine trees made a heavy shadeC
Impervious to the windC
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And there sequestered from the eightC
Was spread a treacherous swampW
On which the noonday sun shed lightC
As from a lonely lampX
And midway in the unsafe morassO
A single Island roseO
Of firm dry ground with healthful grassO
Adorned and shady boughsO
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The Woodman knew for such the craftC
This Russian vassal pliedC
That never fowler's gun nor shaftC
Of archer there was triedC
A sanctuary seemed the spotC
From all intrusion freeT
And there he planned an artful CotC
For perfect secrecyT
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With earnest pains unchecked by dreadC
Of Power's far stretching handC
The bold good Man his labor spedC
At nature's pure commandC
Heart soothed and busy as a wrenY
While in a hollow nookZ
She moulds her sight eluding denY
Above a murmuring brookZ
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His task accomplished to his mindC
The twain ere break of dayC
Creep forth and through the forest windC
Their solitary wayC
Few words they speak nor dare to slackA2
Their pace from mile to mileB2
Till they have crossed the quaking marshC2
And reached the lonely IsleB2
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The sun above the pine trees showedC
A bright and cheerful faceO
And Ina looked for her abodeC
The promised hiding placeO
She sought in vain the Woodman smiledC
No threshold could be seenD2
Nor roof nor window all seemed wildC
As it had ever beenE2
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Advancing you might guess an hourL
The front with such nice careV
Is masked 'if house it be or bower '-
But in they entered areJ
As shaggy as were wall and roofI
With branches intertwinedC
So smooth was all within air proofI
And delicately linedC
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And hearth was there and maple dishF2
And cups in seemly rowsO
And couch all ready to a wishF2
For nurture or reposeO
And Heaven doth to her virtue grantC
That here she may abideC
In solitude with every wantC
By cautious love suppliedC
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No queen before a shouting crowdC
Led on in bridal stateC
E'er struggled with a heart so proudC
Entering her palace gateC
Rejoiced to bid the world farewellG2
No saintly anchoressO
E'er took possession of her cellG2
With deeper thankfulnessO
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'Father of all upon thy careV
And mercy am I thrownH2
Be thou my safeguard ' such her prayerV
When she was left aloneH2
Kneeling amid the wildernessO
When joy had passed awayC
And smiles fond efforts of distressO
To hide what they betrayC
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The prayer is heard the Saints have seenD2
Diffused through form and faceO
Resolves devotedly sereneD2
That monumental graceO
Of Faith which doth all passions tameI2
That Reason should controlM
And shows in the untrembling frameI2
A statue of the soulM
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IIIA
'TIS sung in ancient minstrelsyO
That Phoebus wont to wearV
The leaves of any pleasant treeT
Around his golden hairV
Till Daphne desperate with pursuitC
Of his imperious loveJ2
At her own prayer transformed took rootC
A laurel in the groveK2
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Then did the Penitent adornD
His brow with laurel greenD2
And 'mid his bright locks never shornD
No meaner leaf was seenD2
And poets sage through every ageL2
About their temples woundC
The bay and conquerors thanked the GodsO
With laurel chaplets crownedC
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Into the mists of fabling TimeM2
So far runs back the praiseO
Of Beauty that disdains to climbM2
Along forbidden waysO
That scorns temptation power defiesO
Where mutual love is notC
And to the tomb for rescue fliesO
When life would be a blotC
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To this fair Votaress a fateC
More mild doth Heaven ordainN2
Upon her Island desolateC
And word not breathed in vainN2
Might tell what intercourse she foundC
Her silence to endearR
What birds she tamed what flowers the groundC
Sent forth her peace to cheerQ
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To one mute Presence above allO2
Her soothed affections clungP2
A picture on the cabin wallO2
By Russian usage hungP2
The Mother maid whose countenance brightC
With love abridged the dayC
And communed with by taper lightC
Chased spectral fears awayC
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And oft as either Guardian cameI2
The joy in that retreatC
Might any common friendship shameI2
So high their heart would beatC
And to the lone Recluse whate'erL
They brought each visitingQ2
Was like the crowding of the yearQ
With a new burst of springQ2
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But when she of her Parents thoughtC
The pang was hard to bearV
And if with all things not enwroughtC
That trouble still is nearQ
Before her flight she had not daredC

William Wordsworth



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