After Hearing A Waltz By Bartok Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBA CDEDDE FGFGGF HIHIIH JKJKKJ LMLMMM NKOKKO PQPQQP RSRSSR MTMTTM MUMUUM| But why did I kill him Why Why | A |
| In the small gilded room near the stair | B |
| My ears rack and throb with his cry | A |
| And his eyes goggle under his hair | B |
| As my fingers sink into the fair | B |
| White skin of his throat It was I | A |
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| I killed him My God Don't you hear | C |
| I shook him until his red tongue | D |
| Hung flapping out through the black queer | E |
| Swollen lines of his lips And I clung | D |
| With my nails drawing blood while I flung | D |
| The loose heavy body in fear | E |
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| Fear lest he should still not be dead | F |
| I was drunk with the lust of his life | G |
| The blood drops oozed slow from his head | F |
| And dabbled a chair And our strife | G |
| Lasted one reeling second his knife | G |
| Lay and winked in the lights overhead | F |
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| And the waltz from the ballroom I heard | H |
| When I called him a low sneaking cur | I |
| And the wail of the violins stirred | H |
| My brute anger with visions of her | I |
| As I throttled his windpipe the purr | I |
| Of his breath with the waltz became blurred | H |
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| I have ridden ten miles through the dark | J |
| With that music an infernal din | K |
| Pounding rhythmic inside me Just Hark | J |
| One Two Three And my fingers sink in | K |
| To his flesh when the violins thin | K |
| And straining with passion grow stark | J |
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| One Two Three Oh the horror of sound | L |
| While she danced I was crushing his throat | M |
| He had tasted the joy of her wound | L |
| Round her body and I heard him gloat | M |
| On the favour That instant I smote | M |
| One Two Three How the dancers swirl round | M |
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| He is here in the room in my arm | N |
| His limp body hangs on the spin | K |
| Of the waltz we are dancing a swarm | O |
| Of blood drops is hemming us in | K |
| Round and round One Two Three And his sin | K |
| Is red like his tongue lolling warm | O |
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| One Two Three And the drums are his knell | P |
| He is heavy his feet beat the floor | Q |
| As I drag him about in the swell | P |
| Of the waltz With a menacing roar | Q |
| The trumpets crash in through the door | Q |
| One Two Three clangs his funeral bell | P |
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| One Two Three In the chaos of space | R |
| Rolls the earth to the hideous glee | S |
| Of death And so cramped is this place | R |
| I stifle and pant One Two Three | S |
| Round and round God 'Tis he throttles me | S |
| He has covered my mouth with his face | R |
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| And his blood has dripped into my heart | M |
| And my heart beats and labours One Two | T |
| Three His dead limbs have coiled every part | M |
| Of my body in tentacles Through | T |
| My ears the waltz jangles Like glue | T |
| His dead body holds me athwart | M |
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| One Two Three Give me air Oh My God | M |
| One Two Three I am drowning in slime | U |
| One Two Three And his corpse like a clod | M |
| Beats me into a jelly The chime | U |
| One Two Three And his dead legs keep time | U |
| Air Give me air Air My God | M |
Amy Lowell
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