The Old Prison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB ADDD EFGF HAIA JKLK| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| Waves of shadow wash | E |
| the empty shell bone bare | F |
| and like a bone it sings | G |
| a bitter song of air | F |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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