A Prisoner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBDEFFFE FFGFFHIFJJJF JJKLLKEJMMFJ| Where I can see him all day long | A |
| And hear his wild spontaneous song | A |
| Before my window in his cage | B |
| A blithe canary sits and swings | C |
| And circles round on golden wings | C |
| And startles all the vicinage | B |
| When from his china tankard | D |
| He takes a dainty drink | E |
| To clear his throat | F |
| For as sweet a note | F |
| As ever yet was caroled | F |
| By lark or bobolink | E |
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| Sometimes he drops his pretty head | F |
| And seems to be dispirited | F |
| And then his little mistress says | G |
| Poor Dickie misses his chickweed | F |
| Or else I've fed him musty seed | F |
| As stale as last year's oranges | H |
| But all the time I wonder | I |
| If we half comprehend | F |
| In sweet song words | J |
| The thought of birds | J |
| Or why so oft their raptures | J |
| In sudden silence end | F |
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| They do not pine for forest wilds | J |
| Within the blue Canary isles | J |
| As exiles from their native home | K |
| For in a foreign domicile | L |
| They first essayed their gamut trill | L |
| Beneath a cage's gilded dome | K |
| But maybe some sad throbbing | E |
| Betimes their spirits stirs | J |
| Who love as we | M |
| Dear liberty | M |
| That they admired and petted | F |
| Are only prisoners | J |
Hattie Howard
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