Prison Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ| The skin ripples over my body like moon wooed water | A |
| rearing to escape me Where could it find another | A |
| animal as naked as the one it hates to cover | A |
| Once it told me what was happening outside | B |
| who was attacking who caressing and what the air | C |
| was doing to feed or freeze me Now I wake up | D |
| dark at night in a textureless ocean of ignorance | E |
| or fruit bites back and water bruises like a stone | F |
| It s jealousy because I look for other tools to know | G |
| with and other armor better girded to my wish | H |
| So let it lie turn off the clues or try to leave | I |
| sewn on me seamless like those painful shirts | J |
| the body hating saints wore the sheath of hell | K |
| is pierced to my darkness nonetheless what traitors | L |
| labor in my face what hints they smuggle through | M |
| its arching guard But even in the night it jails | N |
| with nothing but its lies and silences to feed upon | O |
| the jail itself can make a scenery sing prison songs | P |
| and set off fireworks to praise a homemade day | Q |
Alan Dugan
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