J'k. Huysmans Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJACKLMLNOP QRSTAUVWXYZJA2B2C2D2 JE2F2| A flickering glimmer through a window pane | A |
| A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass | B |
| Cleaving a path between blown walls of sleet | C |
| Across uneven pavements sunk in slime | D |
| To scatter and then quench itself in mist | E |
| And struggling slipping often rudely hurled | F |
| Against the jutting angle of a wall | G |
| And cursed and reeled against and flung aside | H |
| By drunken brawlers as they shuffled past | I |
| A man was groping to what seemed a light | J |
| His eyelids burnt and quivered with the strain | A |
| Of looking and against his temples beat | C |
| The all enshrouding suffocating dark | K |
| He stumbled lurched and struck against a door | L |
| That opened and a howl of obscene mirth | M |
| Grated his senses wallowing on the floor | L |
| Lay men and dogs and women in the dirt | N |
| He sickened loathing it and as he gazed | O |
| The candle guttered flared and then went out | P |
| - | |
| Through travail of ignoble midnight streets | Q |
| He came at last to shelter in a porch | R |
| Where gothic saints and warriors made a shield | S |
| To cover him and tortured gargoyles spat | T |
| One long continuous stream of silver rain | A |
| That clattered down from myriad roofs and spires | U |
| Into a darkness loud with rushing sound | V |
| Of water falling gurgling as it fell | W |
| But always thickly dark Then as he leaned | X |
| Unconscious where the great oak door blew back | Y |
| And cast him bruised and dripping in the church | Z |
| His eyes from long sojourning in the night | J |
| Were blinded now as by some glorious sun | A2 |
| He slowly crawled toward the altar steps | B2 |
| He could not think for heavy in his ears | C2 |
| An organ boomed majestic harmonies | D2 |
| He only knew that what he saw was light | J |
| He bowed himself before a cross of flame | E2 |
| And shut his eyes in fear lest it should fade | F2 |
Amy Lowell
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