The Russian Fugitive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE CCCCCFCF CCCCGCHC IJI KCKC CLCLCCCC CDCDCMCM DCDCCNCO COCOCLCL CCCCPQPR S S CCC TUTUOCO AVCVCCCCC CWCXOOOO CCCCCTCT CCCCYZYZ CCCCA2B2C2B2 COCOCD2CE2 LV JICIC F2OF2OCCCC CCCCG2OG2O VH2VH2OCOC D2OD2OI2MI2M AOVTVCJ2CK2 DD2DD2L2COC M2OM2OOCOC CN2CN2CRCQ O2P2O2P2CCCC I2CI2CLQ2QQ2 CVCQCI | A |
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ENOUGH of rose bud lips and eyes | B |
Like harebells bathed in dew | C |
Of cheek that with carnation vies | B |
And veins of violet hue | C |
Earth wants not beauty that may scorn | D |
A likening to frail flowers | E |
Yea to the stars if they were born | D |
For seasons and for hours | E |
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Through Moscow's gates with gold unbarred | C |
Stepped One at dead of night | C |
Whom such high beauty could not guard | C |
From meditated blight | C |
By stealth she passed and fled as fast | C |
As doth the hunted fawn | F |
Nor stopped till in the dappling east | C |
Appeared unwelcome dawn | F |
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Seven days she lurked in brake and field | C |
Seven nights her course renewed | C |
Sustained by what her scrip might yield | C |
Or berries of the wood | C |
At length in darkness travelling on | G |
When lowly doors were shut | C |
The haven of her hope she won | H |
Her foster mother's hut | C |
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'To put your love to dangerous proof | I |
I come ' said she 'from far | J |
For I have left my Father's roof | I |
In terror of the czar ' | - |
No answer did the Matron give | K |
No second look she cast | C |
But hung upon the fugitive | K |
Embracing and embraced | C |
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She led the Lady to a seat | C |
Beside the glimmering fire | L |
Bathed duteously her wayworn feet | C |
Prevented each desire | L |
The cricket chirped the house dog dozed | C |
And on that simple bed | C |
Where she in childhood had reposed | C |
Now rests her weary head | C |
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When she whose couch had been the sod | C |
Whose curtain pine or thorn | D |
Had breathed a sigh of thanks to God | C |
Who comforts the forlorn | D |
While over her the Matron bent | C |
Sleep sealed her eyes and stole | M |
Feeling from limbs with travel spent | C |
And trouble from the soul | M |
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Refreshed the Wanderer rose at morn | D |
And soon again was dight | C |
In those unworthy vestments worn | D |
Through long and perilous flight | C |
And 'O beloved Nurse ' she said | C |
'My thanks with silent tears | N |
Have unto Heaven and You been paid | C |
Now listen to my fears | O |
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'Have you forgot' and here she smiled | C |
'The babbling flatteries | O |
You lavished on me when a child | C |
Disporting round your knees | O |
I was your lambkin and your bird | C |
Your star your gem your flower | L |
Light words that were more lightly heard | C |
In many a cloudless hour | L |
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'The blossom you so fondly praised | C |
Is come to bitter fruit | C |
A mighty One upon me gazed | C |
I spurned his lawless suit | C |
And must be hidden from his wrath | P |
You Foster father dear | Q |
Will guide me in my forward path | P |
I may not tarry here | R |
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'I cannot bring to utter woe | S |
Your proved fidelity ' | - |
'Dear Child sweet Mistress say not so | S |
For you we both would die ' | - |
'Nay nay I come with semblance feigned | C |
And cheek embrowned by art | C |
Yet being inwardly unstained | C |
With courage will depart ' | - |
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'But whither would you could you flee | T |
A poor Man's counsel take | U |
The Holy Virgin gives to me | T |
A thought for your dear sake | U |
Rest shielded by our Lady's grace | O |
And soon shall you be led | C |
Forth to a safe abiding place | O |
Where never foot doth tread ' | - |
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II | A |
THE dwelling of this faithful pair | V |
In a straggling village stood | C |
For One who breathed unquiet air | V |
A dangerous neighbourhood | C |
But wide around lay forest ground | C |
With thickets rough and blind | C |
And pine trees made a heavy shade | C |
Impervious to the wind | C |
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And there sequestered from the eight | C |
Was spread a treacherous swamp | W |
On which the noonday sun shed light | C |
As from a lonely lamp | X |
And midway in the unsafe morass | O |
A single Island rose | O |
Of firm dry ground with healthful grass | O |
Adorned and shady boughs | O |
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The Woodman knew for such the craft | C |
This Russian vassal plied | C |
That never fowler's gun nor shaft | C |
Of archer there was tried | C |
A sanctuary seemed the spot | C |
From all intrusion free | T |
And there he planned an artful Cot | C |
For perfect secrecy | T |
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With earnest pains unchecked by dread | C |
Of Power's far stretching hand | C |
The bold good Man his labor sped | C |
At nature's pure command | C |
Heart soothed and busy as a wren | Y |
While in a hollow nook | Z |
She moulds her sight eluding den | Y |
Above a murmuring brook | Z |
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His task accomplished to his mind | C |
The twain ere break of day | C |
Creep forth and through the forest wind | C |
Their solitary way | C |
Few words they speak nor dare to slack | A2 |
Their pace from mile to mile | B2 |
Till they have crossed the quaking marsh | C2 |
And reached the lonely Isle | B2 |
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The sun above the pine trees showed | C |
A bright and cheerful face | O |
And Ina looked for her abode | C |
The promised hiding place | O |
She sought in vain the Woodman smiled | C |
No threshold could be seen | D2 |
Nor roof nor window all seemed wild | C |
As it had ever been | E2 |
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Advancing you might guess an hour | L |
The front with such nice care | V |
Is masked 'if house it be or bower ' | - |
But in they entered are | J |
As shaggy as were wall and roof | I |
With branches intertwined | C |
So smooth was all within air proof | I |
And delicately lined | C |
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And hearth was there and maple dish | F2 |
And cups in seemly rows | O |
And couch all ready to a wish | F2 |
For nurture or repose | O |
And Heaven doth to her virtue grant | C |
That here she may abide | C |
In solitude with every want | C |
By cautious love supplied | C |
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No queen before a shouting crowd | C |
Led on in bridal state | C |
E'er struggled with a heart so proud | C |
Entering her palace gate | C |
Rejoiced to bid the world farewell | G2 |
No saintly anchoress | O |
E'er took possession of her cell | G2 |
With deeper thankfulness | O |
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'Father of all upon thy care | V |
And mercy am I thrown | H2 |
Be thou my safeguard ' such her prayer | V |
When she was left alone | H2 |
Kneeling amid the wilderness | O |
When joy had passed away | C |
And smiles fond efforts of distress | O |
To hide what they betray | C |
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The prayer is heard the Saints have seen | D2 |
Diffused through form and face | O |
Resolves devotedly serene | D2 |
That monumental grace | O |
Of Faith which doth all passions tame | I2 |
That Reason should control | M |
And shows in the untrembling frame | I2 |
A statue of the soul | M |
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III | A |
'TIS sung in ancient minstrelsy | O |
That Phoebus wont to wear | V |
The leaves of any pleasant tree | T |
Around his golden hair | V |
Till Daphne desperate with pursuit | C |
Of his imperious love | J2 |
At her own prayer transformed took root | C |
A laurel in the grove | K2 |
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Then did the Penitent adorn | D |
His brow with laurel green | D2 |
And 'mid his bright locks never shorn | D |
No meaner leaf was seen | D2 |
And poets sage through every age | L2 |
About their temples wound | C |
The bay and conquerors thanked the Gods | O |
With laurel chaplets crowned | C |
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Into the mists of fabling Time | M2 |
So far runs back the praise | O |
Of Beauty that disdains to climb | M2 |
Along forbidden ways | O |
That scorns temptation power defies | O |
Where mutual love is not | C |
And to the tomb for rescue flies | O |
When life would be a blot | C |
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To this fair Votaress a fate | C |
More mild doth Heaven ordain | N2 |
Upon her Island desolate | C |
And word not breathed in vain | N2 |
Might tell what intercourse she found | C |
Her silence to endear | R |
What birds she tamed what flowers the ground | C |
Sent forth her peace to cheer | Q |
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To one mute Presence above all | O2 |
Her soothed affections clung | P2 |
A picture on the cabin wall | O2 |
By Russian usage hung | P2 |
The Mother maid whose countenance bright | C |
With love abridged the day | C |
And communed with by taper light | C |
Chased spectral fears away | C |
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And oft as either Guardian came | I2 |
The joy in that retreat | C |
Might any common friendship shame | I2 |
So high their heart would beat | C |
And to the lone Recluse whate'er | L |
They brought each visiting | Q2 |
Was like the crowding of the year | Q |
With a new burst of spring | Q2 |
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But when she of her Parents thought | C |
The pang was hard to bear | V |
And if with all things not enwrought | C |
That trouble still is near | Q |
Before her flight she had not dared | C |
William Wordsworth
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