The Prisoner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FCGG HHBB IIJJ BBKL MMNN| Still let my tyrants know I am not doomed to wear | A |
| Year after year in gloom and desolate despair | A |
| A messenger of Hope comes every night to me | B |
| And offers for short life eternal liberty | B |
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| He comes with western winds with evening's wandering airs | C |
| With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars | D |
| Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire | E |
| And visions rise and change that kill me with desire | E |
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| Desire for nothing known in my maturer years | F |
| When Joy grew mad with awe at counting future tears | C |
| When if my spirit's sky was full of flashes warm | G |
| I knew not whence they came from sun or thunderstorm | G |
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| But first a hush of peace a soundless calm descends | H |
| The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends | H |
| Mute music soothes my breast unuttered harmony | B |
| That I could never dream till Earth was lost to me | B |
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| Then dawns the Invisible the Unseen its truth reveals | I |
| My outward sense is gone my inward essence feels | I |
| Its wings are almost free its home its harbour found | J |
| Measuring the gulf it stoops and dares the final bound | J |
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| O dreadful is the check intense the agony | B |
| When the ear begins to hear and the eye begins to see | B |
| When the pulse begins to throb the brain to think again | K |
| The soul to feel the flesh and the flesh to feel the chain | L |
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| Yet I would lose no sting would wish no torture less | M |
| The more that anguish racks the earlier it will bless | M |
| And robed in fires of hell or bright with heavenly shine | N |
| If it but herald Death the vision is divine | N |
Emily Bronte
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