The connections I can make to the title of the poem was someone being sympathetic to someone else
The poem is organized in 3 stanzas all of them have 7 lines
The first line rhymes like ABAABCC ABAABAA ABAABCC
The tone of the poem is angry and sad because it says "Till the blood is red on the cruel bars" and "And pain throbs in the old, ols scars". I also think that it might have some sympathy in it because the name is Sympathay.
It has Personifacation in it because it says "cruel bars" . I also found a simile "The river flows like a stream of glass".Also some Alliteration when he said " heaven he" and "Through the." Then now finally, Hyperbole such as "I know what the caged bird feels." I am not sure weather Paul meant- when he said,
"I know what the caged bird feels."- about the brusies or not.
I think the poet wants us to think about how we keep birds as pets, and put them inside tiny cages, when they are meant to fly across the sky.The meaning of the poem is the poet telling us how hard it is for a bid to live inside the cage.
