Part 3 of The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Quotes:
"Who watched him lest himself should rob Their scaffold of its prey."
"He often said that he was glad The hangman's hands were near."
"We tore the tarry rope to shreds With blunt and bleeding nails..." - prison labour
"But in the heart of every man Terror was lying still." 
"We passed an open grave."
"With yawning mouth the yellow hole Gaped for a living thing; The very mud cried out for blood To the thirsty asphalte ring..."
"The hangman, with his little bag, Went shuffling through the gloom..."
"How one could sleep so sweet a sleep With a hangman close at hand." 
"Gray figures on the floor, And wondered why men knelt to pray Who never prayed before."
"And each evil sprite that walks by night Before us seemed to play."
"They mocked the moon in a rigadoon..."
"The phantoms kept their tryst."
"With the pirouettes of marionettes, They tripped on pointed tread..."
"For they sang to wake the dead."
"For the Lord of Death...He did not pass in purple pomp...Three yards of cord...Are all the gallows' need..."

"Ah! wounds of Christ! they were living things, Most terrible to see." - visions of hell linked to Christ - paradox
"Around, around, they waltzed and wound; Some wheeled in smirking pairs..." - assonance
"For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill."
"Something was dead in each of us, And what was dead was Hope."
"And heard the prayer the hangman's snare Strangled into a scream."