A Plagued Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJHKLLAMNOP DQROSTUP OVSWODWXVOYSZOOThere is no warning rattle at the door | A |
nor heavy feet to stomp the foyer boards | B |
Safe in the dark prison I know that | C |
light slides over | D |
the fingered work of a toothless | E |
woman in Pakistan | F |
Happy prints of | G |
an invisible time are illumined | H |
My mouth agape | I |
rejects the solid air and | H |
lungs hold The invader takes | J |
direction and | H |
seeps through the plaster walls | K |
It is at my chamber entering | L |
the keyhole pushing | L |
through the padding of the door | A |
I cannot scream A bone | M |
of fear clogs my throat | N |
It is upon me It is | O |
sunrise with Hope | P |
its arrogant rider | D |
My mind formerly quiescent | Q |
in its snug encasement is strained | R |
to look upon their rapturous visages | O |
to let them enter even into me | S |
I am forced | T |
outside myself to | U |
mount the light and ride joined with Hope | P |
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Through all the bright hours | O |
I cling to expectation until | V |
darkness comes to reclaim me | S |
as its own Hope fades day is gone | W |
into its irredeemable place | O |
and I am thrown back into the familiar | D |
bonds of disconsolation | W |
Gloom crawls around | X |
lapping lasciviously | V |
between my toes at my ankles | O |
and it sucks the strands of my | Y |
hair It forgives my heady | S |
fling with Hope I am | Z |
joined again into its | O |
greedy arms | O |
Maya Angelou
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