The Prisoner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHIH JFJF DKDK LELE MNMN| I lash and writhe against my prison bars | A |
| And watch with sullen eyes the gaping crowd | B |
| Give me my freedom and the burning stars | A |
| The hollow sky and crags of moonlit cloud | B |
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| Once I might range across the trackless plain | C |
| And roar with joy until the desert air | D |
| And wide horizons echoed it amain | C |
| I feared no foe for I was monarch there | D |
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| I saw my shadow on the parching sand | E |
| When the hot sun had kissed the mountain's rim | F |
| And when the moon rose o'er long wastes of land | E |
| I sought my prey by some still river's brim | F |
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| And with me my fierce love my tawny mate | G |
| Meet mother of strong cubs meet lion's bride | H |
| We made our lair in regions desolate | I |
| The solitude of wildernesses wide | H |
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| They slew her and I watched the life blood flow | J |
| From her torn flank and her proud eyes grow dim | F |
| I howled her dirge above her while the low | J |
| Red moon clomb up the black horizon's rim | F |
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| Me they entrapped cowards They did not dare | D |
| To fight as brave men do without disguise | K |
| And face my unleashed rage The hidden snare | D |
| Was their device to win an untamed prize | K |
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| I am a captive not for me the vast | L |
| White dome of sky above the blinding sand | E |
| The sweeping rapture of the desert blast | L |
| Across long ranges of untrodden land | E |
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| Yet still they fetter not my thought In dreams | M |
| I desert born tread the hot wastes once more | N |
| Quench my deep thirst in cool untainted streams | M |
| And shake the darkness with my kingly roar | N |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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