Prisoners Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFCGHI JKLFM FNOPEFQ RFS TUFFVFWCX| Though the road turn at last | A |
| to death s ordinary door | B |
| and we knock there ready | C |
| to enter and it opens | D |
| easily for us | E |
| yet | F |
| all the long journey | C |
| we shall have gone in chains | G |
| fed on knowledge apples | H |
| acrid and riddled with grubs | I |
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| We taste other food that life | J |
| like a charitable farm girl | K |
| holds out to us as we pass | L |
| but our mouths are puckered | F |
| a taint of ash on the tongue | M |
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| It s not joy that we ve lost | F |
| wildfire it flares | N |
| in dark or shine as it will | O |
| What s gone | P |
| is common happiness | E |
| plain bread we could eat | F |
| with the old apple of knowledge | Q |
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| That old one it griped us sometimes | R |
| but it was firm tart | F |
| sometimes delectable | S |
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| The ashen apple of these days | T |
| grew from poisoned soil We are prisoners | U |
| and must eat | F |
| our ration All the long road | F |
| in chains even if after all | V |
| we come to | F |
| death s ordinary door with time | W |
| smiling its ordinary | C |
| long ago smile | X |
Denise Levertov
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