Thoughts In A Zoo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHII| They in their cruel traps and we in ours | A |
| Survey each other s rage and pass the hours | A |
| Commiserating each the other s woe | B |
| To mitigate his own pain s fiery glow | B |
| Man could but little proffer in exchange | C |
| Save that his cages have a larger range | C |
| That lion with his lordly untamed heart | D |
| Has in some man his human counterpart | D |
| Some lofty soul in dreams and visions wrapped | E |
| But in the stifling flesh securely trapped | E |
| Gaunt eagle whose raw pinions stain the bars | F |
| That prison you so men cry for the stars | F |
| Some delve down like the mole far underground | G |
| Their nature is to burrow not to bound | G |
| Some like the snake with changeless slothful eye | H |
| Stir not but sleep and smoulder where they lie | H |
| Who is most wretched these caged ones or we | I |
| Caught in a vastness beyond our sight to see | I |
Countee Cullen
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