A Poem About George Doty In The Death House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEAF GHHIJKKJ LMMLNOPN EQQRQSSQ TUSTKVVK WXYWZIIA2| Lured by the wall and drawn | A |
| To stare below the roof | B |
| Where pigeons nest aloof | B |
| From prowling cats and men | C |
| I count the sash and bar | D |
| Secured to granite stone | E |
| And note the daylight gone | A |
| Supper and silence near | F |
| - | |
| Close to the wall inside | G |
| Immured empty of love | H |
| A man I have wondered of | H |
| Lies patient vacant eye | I |
| A month and a day ago | J |
| He stopped his car and found | K |
| A girl on the darkening ground | K |
| And killed her in the snow | J |
| - | |
| Beside his cell I am told | L |
| Hardy perennial bums | M |
| Complain till twilight comes | M |
| For hunger and for cold | L |
| They hardly know of a day | N |
| That saw their hunger pass | O |
| Bred to the dark their flesh | P |
| Peacefully withers away | N |
| - | |
| The man who sits alone | E |
| He is the one for wonder | Q |
| Who sways his fingers under | Q |
| The cleanly shaven chin | R |
| Who sees in the shaving mirror | Q |
| Pinned to the barren wall | S |
| The uprooted ghost of all | S |
| The simple easy terror | Q |
| - | |
| Caught between sky and earth | T |
| Poor stupid animal | U |
| Stripped naked to the wall | S |
| He saw the blundered birth | T |
| Of daemons beyond sound | K |
| Sick of the dark he rose | V |
| For love and now he goes | V |
| Back to the broken ground | K |
| - | |
| Now as he grips the chain | W |
| And holds the wall to bear | X |
| What no man ever bore | Y |
| He hears the bums complain | W |
| But I mourn no soul but his | Z |
| Not even the bums who die | I |
| Nor the homely girl whose cry | I |
| Crumbled his pleading kiss | A2 |
James Arlington Wright
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