The Prisoner of Chillon: A Fable Isolation Quotes

The speaker used to have a large family, but now he's the only one left. Notice how the "one" that's left is even isolated in the poetic line: he's separated from the "seven" by the dash in the middle of the line.

Now the speaker's large family has dwindled to three – yet they're isolated from each other because they're each chained to a separate pillar. Like in the previous example, they're isolated also by the dash in the middle of the line.

Even though the three brothers share a dungeon cell, they can't even see each other's faces.