In The Prison Pen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JBKB GGBLG| Listless he eyes the palisades | A |
| And sentries in the glare | B |
| 'Tis barren as a pelican beach | C |
| But his world is ended there | B |
| - | |
| Nothing to do and vacant hands | D |
| Bring on the idiot pain | E |
| He tries to think to recollect | F |
| But the blur is on his brain | E |
| - | |
| Around him swarm the plaining ghosts | G |
| Like those on Virgil's shore | H |
| A wilderness of faces dim | I |
| And pale ones gashed and hoar | H |
| - | |
| A smiting sun No shed no tree | J |
| He totters to his lair | B |
| A den that sick hands dug in earth | K |
| Ere famine wasted there | B |
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| Or dropping in his place he swoons | G |
| Walled in by throngs that press | G |
| Till forth from the throngs they bear | B |
| him dead | L |
| Dead in his meagreness | G |
Herman Melville
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