The Cage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDE FGFHF IJKBBG LMC| In the waking night | A |
| The forests have stopped growing | B |
| The shells are listening | B |
| The shadows in the pools turn grey | C |
| The pearls dissolve in the shadow | D |
| And I return to you | E |
| - | |
| Your face is marked upon the clockface | F |
| My hands are beneath your hair | G |
| And if the time you mark sets free the birds | F |
| And if they fly away towards the forest | H |
| The hour will no longer be ours | F |
| - | |
| Ours is the ornate birdcage | I |
| The brimming cup of water | J |
| The preface to the book | K |
| And all the clocks are ticking | B |
| All the dark rooms are moving | B |
| All the air's nerves are bare | G |
| - | |
| Once flown | L |
| The feathered hour will not return | M |
| And I shall have gone away | C |
David Gascoyne
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