Kidnaped Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| I held my heart so far from harm | A |
| I let it wander far and free | B |
| In mead and mart without alarm | A |
| Assured it must come back to me | B |
| - | |
| And all went well till on a day | C |
| Learned Dr Cupid wandered by | D |
| A search along our sylvan way | C |
| For some peculiar butterfly | D |
| - | |
| A flash of wings a hurried dive | E |
| A flutter and a short lived flit | F |
| This Scientist as I am alive | E |
| Had seen my heart and captured it | F |
| - | |
| Right tightly now 'tis held among | G |
| The specimens that he has trapped | H |
| And sings Oh love is ever young | G |
| 'Tis passing sweet to be kidnaped | H |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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