Dead- A Prisoner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIJICC KLMN O| He died the loneliest death of all | A |
| Amid his foes he died | B |
| But Someone's leaped the outer wall | A |
| And Someone's come inside | B |
| And he has gotten a golden key | C |
| To set the lonesome prisoner free | C |
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| It was not Peter with the keys | D |
| The heavenly janitor | E |
| Who has passed them like a rushing breeze | D |
| The gaolers at the door | F |
| And to His bosom as a bed | G |
| Has taken the unmothered head | G |
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| A great light in the prison shone | H |
| That made the people blind | I |
| Rise up rise up new ransomed one | J |
| And taste the sun and wind | I |
| For I have gotten a golden key | C |
| To set all lonesome prisoners free | C |
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| Yea they shall soar shall spring aloft | K |
| Their gyves shall not be rough | L |
| But just the links of love so soft | M |
| That they shall not cast off | N |
| Rise up my dear and come away ' | - |
| And they went out to the great day | O |
Katharine Tynan
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