The Captive Knight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDDCEEFGGFEE HIIHEE JKKJEE ILLIM| The prisoned thrush may brook the cage | A |
| The captive eagle dies for rage | A |
| Lady of the Lake | B |
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| 'Twas a trumpet's pealing sound | C |
| And the knight look'd down from the Paynim's tower | D |
| And a Christian host in its pride and power | D |
| Thro' the pass beneath him wound | C |
| Cease awhile clarion Clarion wild and shrill | E |
| Cease let them hear the captive's voice be still | E |
| 'I knew 'twas a trumpet's note | F |
| And I see my brethren's lances gleam | G |
| And their pennons wave by the mountain stream | G |
| And their plumes to the glad wind float | F |
| Cease awhile clarion Clarion wild and shrill | E |
| Cease let them hear the captive's voice be still | E |
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| 'I am here with my heavy chain | H |
| And I look on a torrent sweeping by | I |
| And an eagle rushing to the sky | I |
| And a host to its battle plain | H |
| Cease awhile clarion Clarion wild and shrill | E |
| Cease let them hear the captive's voice be still | E |
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| 'Must I pine in my fetters here | J |
| With the wild wave's foam and the free bird's flight | K |
| And the tall spears glancing on my sight | K |
| And the trumpet in mine ear | J |
| Cease awhile clarion Clarion wild and shrill | E |
| Cease let them hear the captive's voice be still | E |
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| 'They are gone they have all pass'd by | I |
| They in whose wars I had borne my part | L |
| They that I lov'd with a brother's heart | L |
| They have left me here to die | I |
| Sound again clarion Clarion pour thy blast | M |
| Sound for the captive's dream of hope is past ' | - |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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