A Prisoner In A Dungeon Deep Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIH JFKF LMNM OPQP RSTS UVWV XMYM ZJA2J B2C2D2C2 E2BF2 G2H2BH2 VRI2| A prisoner in a dungeon deep | A |
| Sat musing silently | B |
| His head was rested on his hand | C |
| His elbow on his knee | B |
| Turned he his thoughts to future times | D |
| Or are they backward cast | E |
| For freedom is he pining now | F |
| Or mourning for the past | E |
| - | |
| No he has lived so long enthralled | G |
| Alone in dungeon gloom | H |
| That he has lost regret and hope | I |
| Has ceased to mourn his doom | H |
| - | |
| He pines not for the light of day | J |
| Nor sighs for freedom now | F |
| Such weary thoughts have ceased at length | K |
| To rack his burning brow | F |
| - | |
| Lost in a maze of wandering thoughts | L |
| He sits unmoving there | M |
| That posture and that look proclaim | N |
| The stupor of despair | M |
| - | |
| Yet not for ever did that mood | O |
| Of sullen calm prevail | P |
| There was a something in his eye | Q |
| That told another tale | P |
| - | |
| It did not speak of reason gone | R |
| It was not madness quite | S |
| It was a fitful flickering fire | T |
| A strange uncertain light | S |
| - | |
| And sooth to say these latter years | U |
| Strange fancies now and then | V |
| Had filled his cell with scenes of life | W |
| And forms of living men | V |
| - | |
| A mind that cannot cease to think | X |
| Why needs he cherish there | M |
| Torpor may bring relief to pain | Y |
| And madness to despair | M |
| - | |
| Such wildering scenes such flitting shapes | Z |
| As feverish dreams display | J |
| What if those fancies still increase | A2 |
| And reason quite decay | J |
| - | |
| But hark what sounds have struck his ear | B2 |
| Voices of men they seem | C2 |
| And two have entered now his cell | D2 |
| Can this too be a dream | C2 |
| - | |
| 'Orlando hear our joyful news | E2 |
| Revenge and liberty | B |
| Your foes are dead and we are come | F2 |
| At last to set you free ' | - |
| - | |
| So spoke the elder of the two | G2 |
| And in the captive's eyes | H2 |
| He looked for gleaming ecstasy | B |
| But only found surprise | H2 |
| - | |
| 'My foes are dead It must be then | V |
| That all mankind are gone | R |
| For they were all my deadly foes | I2 |
| And friends I had not one ' | - |
Anne Bronta
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