One of the goofier sections of this work describes a group of phantoms who make "arabesques" with the "pirouettes of marionettes," while some of them sidle up stairs "with the mincing step of a demirep."  
One of the goofier sections of this work describes a group of phantoms who make "arabesques" with the "pirouettes of marionettes," while some of them sidle up stairs "with the mincing step of a demirep."  Later on, this work mentions a man with a "swollen purple throat" who was given "three weeks of life" by a "man in red."  In another section, we learn about a group of people whose profession is revealed by the "quicklime on their boots," while another part features a man in a "cricket cap" who spent six weeks looking wistfully at the sky.  In the opening stanzas, we encouter a man who does not wear his scarlet coat, because blood and wine were on his hands when he was found in bed.  In the most famous lines of this work about a guardsman named Charles Thomas Wooldridge who killed his wife, we learn that "each man kills the thing he loves."  FTP, name this maudlin poem published under the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth, which was inspired by events during the author's incarceration at the titular location, a work by Oscar Wilde.
One of the goofier sections of this work describes a group of phantoms who make "arabesques" with the "pirouettes of marionettes," while some of them sidle up stairs "with the mincing step of a demirep."  
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (pronounced "jail")