The Prisoner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADEAFGFHFH| I count the dismal time by months and years | A |
| Since last I felt the green sward under foot | B |
| And the great breath of all things summer | C |
| Met mine upon my lips Now earth appears | A |
| As strange to me as dreams of distant spheres | A |
| Or thoughts of Heaven we weep at Nature's lute | D |
| Sounds on behind this door so closely shut | E |
| A strange wild music to the prisoner's ears | A |
| Dilated by the distance till the brain | F |
| Grows dim with fancies which it feels too | G |
| While ever with a visionary pain | F |
| Past the precluded senses sweep and Rhine | H |
| Streams forests glades and many a golden train | F |
| Of sunlit hills transfigured to Divine | H |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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