The Old Prison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADDD EFGF HAIA JKLKThe rows of cells are unroofed | A |
a flute for the wind's mouth | B |
who comes with a breath of ice | C |
from the blue caves of the south | B |
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O dark and fierce day | A |
the wind like an angry bee | D |
hunts for the black honey | D |
in the pits of the hollow sea | D |
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Waves of shadow wash | E |
the empty shell bone bare | F |
and like a bone it sings | G |
a bitter song of air | F |
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Who built and laboured here | H |
The wind and the sea say | A |
Their cold nest is broken | I |
and they are blown away | A |
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They did not breed nor love | J |
each in his cell alone | K |
cried as the wind now cries | L |
through this flute of stone | K |
Judith Wright
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