The Captive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEC CGCG ADAD EHEH| My lady is robed for the ball to night | A |
| All in a shimmer and silken sheen | B |
| She glides down the stairs like a thing of light | A |
| The ballroom's beautiful queen | B |
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| Priceless gems on her bosom glow | C |
| Half hid by laces a queen might wear | D |
| Robed is she as befits you know | C |
| The wife of a millionaire | D |
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| Gliding along at her liege lord's side | E |
| Out shining all in that company | F |
| Into the mind of the old man's bride | E |
| There creeps a curious simile | C |
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| She thinks how once in the Long Ago | C |
| A beautiful captive all aflame | G |
| With jewels that weighed her down like woe | C |
| Close in the wake of her captor came | G |
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| All day long in that mocking plight | A |
| She followed him in a dumb despair | D |
| And the people thought her a goodly sight | A |
| Decked in her jewels rare | D |
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| And now at her lawful master's side | E |
| With a pain in her heart as great as then | H |
| So thinks this old man's beautiful bride | E |
| Zenobia walks again | H |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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