Listen... Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE DGHG IJKA LMNM OPAP| There is a knocking in the skull | A |
| An endless silent shout | B |
| Of something beating on a wall | C |
| And crying Let me out | B |
| - | |
| That solitary prisoner | D |
| Will never hear reply | E |
| No comrade in eternity | F |
| Can hear the frantic cry | E |
| - | |
| No heart can share the terror | D |
| That haunts his monstrous dark | G |
| The light that filters through the chinks | H |
| No other eye can mark | G |
| - | |
| When flesh is linked with eager flesh | I |
| And words run warm and full | J |
| I think that he is loneliest then | K |
| The captive in the skull | A |
| - | |
| Caught in a mesh of living veins | L |
| In cell of padded bone | M |
| He loneliest is when he pretends | N |
| That he is not alone | M |
| - | |
| We d free the incarcerate race of man | O |
| That such a doom endures | P |
| Could only you unlock my skull | A |
| Or I creep into yours | P |
Ogden Nash
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