The Refugee's Haven
You may doubt I find comfort in EnglandBut, there, 'tis a refuge from dangers!Where a Cromwell dictated to Milton,Republicans ne'er can be strangers!
About this text
The Refugee's Haven is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #8775, the various hands translation; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Victor Hugo, The Refugee's Haven, in Poems (1888), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #8775, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hugo-poems/the-refugee-s-haven.html, id L26852.
Form and metre
The Refugee's Haven is 4 lines in a single stanza. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -A-A england · dangersA · milton · strangersA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| You may doubt I find comfort in England | 10 | ·····/˘·/˘ |
| But, there, 'tis a refuge from dangers! | 9 | ····/˘·/˘ |
| Where a Cromwell dictated to Milton, | 10 | ··/˘/·˘·/˘ |
| Republicans ne'er can be strangers! | 9 | ˘/˘˘···/˘ |
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