Discordants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABCB DEFE GHIH JKJLMNMOPPPQ CPPPRSTSU D JPPVWXPPYPPJ| I Bread and Music | A |
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| Music I heard with you was more than music | A |
| And bread I broke with you was more than bread | B |
| Now that I am without you all is desolate | C |
| All that was once so beautiful is dead | B |
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| Your hands once touched this table and this silver | D |
| And I have seen your fingers hold this glass | E |
| These things do not remember you belov d | F |
| And yet your touch upon them will not pass | E |
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| For it was in my heart you moved among them | G |
| And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes | H |
| And in my heart they will remember always | I |
| They knew you once O beautiful and wise | H |
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| II | - |
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| My heart has become as hard as a city street | J |
| The horses trample upon it it sings like iron | K |
| All day long and all night long they beat | J |
| They ring like the hooves of time | L |
| My heart has become as drab as a city park | M |
| The grass is worn with the feet of shameless lovers | N |
| A match is struck there is kissing in the dark | M |
| The moon comes pale with sleep | O |
| My heart is torn with the sound of raucous voices | P |
| They shout from the slums from the streets from the crowded places | P |
| And tunes from the hurdy gurdy that coldly rejoices | P |
| Shoot arrows into my heart | Q |
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| III | - |
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| Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket | C |
| Wrapped and spiced by the cunningest of hands | P |
| Around her neck they have put a golden necklace | P |
| Her tatbebs it is said are worn with sands | P |
| Dead Cleopatra was once revered in Egypt | R |
| Warm eyed she was this princess of the South | S |
| Now she is old and dry and faded | T |
| With black bitumen they have sealed up her mouth | S |
| O sweet clean earth from whom the green blade cometh | U |
| When we are dead my best belov egrave d and I | - |
| Close well above us that we may rest forever | D |
| Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky | - |
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| IV | - |
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| In the noisy street | J |
| Where the sifted sunlight yellows the pallid faces | P |
| Sudden I close my eyes and on my eyelids | P |
| Feel from the far off sea a cool faint spray | V |
| A breath on my cheek | W |
| From the tumbling breakers and foam the hard sand shattered | X |
| Gulls in the high wind whistling flashing waters | P |
| Smoke from the flashing waters blown on rocks | P |
| And I know once more | Y |
| O dearly belov egrave d that all these seas are between us | P |
| Tumult and madness desolate save for the sea gulls | P |
| You on the farther shore and I in this street | J |
Conrad Aiken
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