The Captives Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MJMJ| Psalm | A |
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| Captives by Babel's limpid streams | B |
| We hung our harps on willows there | C |
| Wept over Zion and our dreams | B |
| Waking or sleeping she did share | C |
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| Our victors with their battle arms | D |
| Derided jeered and scorned our tears | E |
| Required mirth diversion's charms | D |
| To thus allay their guilty fears | F |
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| Sing us a song is their demand | G |
| Yea sing us one of Zion's songs | H |
| How can our voices thus expand | G |
| To what to us and God belongs | H |
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| How can we on this heathen shore | I |
| Surrounded by idolatry | J |
| Sing songs that unto us are more | I |
| Than all their glittering pageantry | J |
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| Jerusalem should we forget | K |
| We pray our hearts and tongues be still | L |
| Jerusalem Oh may we yet | K |
| Worship upon thy holy hill | L |
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| Babylon thou art to be destroyed | M |
| Thy doom's foretold in prophecy | J |
| And happy be the means employed | M |
| To hurl thee to thy destiny | J |
Nannie R. Glass
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