A Plagued Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIHJHKLLAMNOP DQROSTUP OVSWODWXVOYSZOO| There 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 |
| - | |
| 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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