Behind The Bars Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ABAB DBDB EBEB FGFB HBHB IBIB JBJB| I am a pilgrim far from home | A |
| A wanderer like Mars | B |
| And thought my wanderings ne'er should come | C |
| So fixed behind the bars | B |
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| I left my sunny Southern home | A |
| Beneath the silver stars | B |
| A northward path began to roam | A |
| Not seeking prison bars | B |
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| I sought a higher holier life | D |
| Which never virtue mars | B |
| But Fate had spun a net of strife | D |
| For me behind the bars | B |
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| My mother's lowly thatched roofed cot | E |
| My nobler senses jars | B |
| And so I seek to aid her lot | E |
| But not behind the bars | B |
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| 'Tis said forsooth the poet learns | F |
| Through sufferings and wars | G |
| To sing the song which deepest burns | F |
| Behind the prison bars | B |
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| Thus I resign myself to Fate | H |
| Regardless of her scars | B |
| For soon she'll open wide the gate | H |
| For me behind the bars | B |
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| I plead to you my fellow man | I |
| For all who wear the tars | B |
| To lend what little help you can | I |
| To us behind the bars | B |
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| O God I breathe my prayer to Thee | J |
| Who never sinner bars | B |
| Set each immortal spirit free | J |
| Behind these prison bars | B |
Edward Smyth Jones
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