The Dungeon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGHICICJHCKII JICCCLMCNII| And this place our forefathers made for man | A |
| This is the process of our love and wisdom | B |
| To each poor brother who offends against us | C |
| Most innocent perhaps and what if guilty | D |
| Is this the only cure Merciful God | E |
| Each pore and natural outlet shrivelled up | F |
| By Ignorance and parching Poverty | D |
| His energies roll back upon his heart | G |
| And stagnate and corrupt till changed to poison | H |
| They break out on him like a loathsome plague spot | I |
| Then we call in our pampered mountebanks | C |
| And this is their best cure uncomforted | I |
| And friendless solitude groaning and tears | C |
| And savage faces at the clanking hour | J |
| Seen through the steam and vapours of his dungeon | H |
| By the lamp's dismal twilgiht So he lies | C |
| Circled with evil till his very soul | K |
| Unmoulds its essence hopelessly deformed | I |
| By sights of ever more deformity | I |
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| With other ministrations thou O Nature | J |
| Healest thy wandering and distempered child | I |
| Thou pourest on him thy soft influences | C |
| Thy sunny hues fair forms and breathing sweets | C |
| Thy melodies of woods and winds and waters | C |
| Till he relent and can no more endure | L |
| To be a jarring and a dissonant thing | M |
| Amid this general dance and minstrelsy | C |
| But bursting into tears wins back his way | N |
| His angry spirit healed and harmonized | I |
| By the benignant touch of Love and Beauty | I |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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