Part 2 of The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Quotes:
"He did not wring his hands...To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair..." - accepts his oncoming death
"But he drank the air as though it held Some healthful anodyne; With open mouth he drank the sun As though it had been wine!" - anodyne is a painkiller, "wine" connotes hedonism
"A great or little thing..." - criticism of prison system
"And strange it was to think that he Had such a debt to pay." - anaphora, euphemism of death
"But grim to see is the gallows-tree, With its adder-bitten root..." - image of rotting to contrast with Romantic imagery of "spring"
"But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!" - disturbing depiction of hanging using semantics of dance
"...never would I see his face In God's sweet world again."
"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way..."
"Two outcast men we were: The world had thrust us from its heart, And God from out His care..."
"And the iron gin that waits for Sin Had caught us in its snare." - internal rhyme