The Turkish Captive Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B ACDEFFFF GHEHIEJE FKCKCLFL MECEKKDK KFKFKFDF KKKKNCDC KKKKEDFD DBKOFOKODEDEDCDC L| Si je n' tait captive | A |
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| IX July | B |
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| Oh were I not a captive | A |
| I should love this fair countree | C |
| Those fields with maize abounding | D |
| This ever plaintive sea | E |
| I'd love those stars unnumbered | F |
| If passing in the shade | F |
| Beneath our walls I saw not | F |
| The spahi's sparkling blade | F |
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| I am no Tartar maiden | G |
| That a blackamoor of price | H |
| Should tune my lute and hold to me | E |
| My glass of sherbet ice | H |
| Far from these haunts of vices | I |
| In my dear countree we | E |
| With sweethearts in the even | J |
| May chat and wander free | E |
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| But still I love this climate | F |
| Where never wintry breeze | K |
| Invades with chilly murmur | C |
| These open lattices | K |
| Where rain is warm in summer | C |
| And the insect glossy green | L |
| Most like a living emerald | F |
| Shines 'mid the leafy screen | L |
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| With her chapelles fair Smyrna | M |
| A gay princess is she | E |
| Still at her summons round her | C |
| Unfading spring ye see | E |
| And as in beauteous vases | K |
| Bright groups of flowers repose | K |
| So in her gulfs are lying | D |
| Her archipelagoes | K |
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| I love these tall red turrets | K |
| These standards brave unrolled | F |
| And like an infant's playthings | K |
| These houses decked with gold | F |
| I love forsooth these reveries | K |
| Though sandstorms make me pant | F |
| Voluptuously swaying | D |
| Upon an elephant | F |
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| Here in this fairy palace | K |
| Full of such melodies | K |
| Methinks I hear deep murmurs | K |
| That in the deserts rise | K |
| Soft mingling with the music | N |
| The Genii's voices pour | C |
| Amid the air unceasing | D |
| Around us evermore | C |
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| I love the burning odors | K |
| This glowing region gives | K |
| And round each gilded lattice | K |
| The trembling wreathing leaves | K |
| And 'neath the bending palm tree | E |
| The gayly gushing spring | D |
| And on the snow white minaret | F |
| The stork with snowier wing | D |
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| I love on mossy couch to sing | D |
| A Spanish roundelay | B |
| And see my sweet companions | K |
| Around commingling gay | O |
| A roving band light hearted | F |
| In frolicsome array | O |
| Who 'neath the screening parasols | K |
| Dance down the merry day | O |
| But more than all enchanting | D |
| At night it is to me | E |
| To sit where winds are sighing | D |
| Lone musing by the sea | E |
| And on its surface gazing | D |
| To mark the moon so fair | C |
| Her silver fan outspreading | D |
| In trembling radiance there | C |
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| W D Tait's Edin Magazine | L |
Victor-marie Hugo
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