Rose And Murray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHIIDDJKJ KLMLMNONOPKPKQDQDRSR T| After the movie when the lights come up | A |
| He takes her powdered hand behind the wings | B |
| She all in yellow like a buttercup | A |
| Lifts her white face yearns up to him and clings | B |
| And with a silent gliding step they move | C |
| Over the footlights in familiar glare | D |
| Panther like in the Tango whirl of love | E |
| He fawning close on her with idiot stare | D |
| Swiftly they cross the stage O lyric ease | F |
| The drunken music follows the sure feet | G |
| The swaying elbows intergliding knees | F |
| Moving with slow precision on the beat | G |
| She was a waitress in a restaurant | H |
| He picked her up and taught her how to dance | I |
| She feels his arms lifts an appealing glance | I |
| But knows he spent last evening with Zudora | D |
| And knows that certain changes are before her | D |
| The brilliant spotlight circles them around | J |
| Flashing the spangles on her weighted dress | K |
| He mimics wooing her without a sound | J |
| Flatters her with a smoothly smiled caress | K |
| He fears that she will someday queer his act | L |
| Feeling his anger He will quit her soon | M |
| He nods for faster music He will contract | L |
| Another partner under another moon | M |
| Meanwhile 'smooth stuff ' He lets his dry eyes flit | N |
| Over the yellow faces there below | O |
| Maybe he'll cut down on his drinks a bit | N |
| Not to annoy her and spoil the show | O |
| Zudora waiting for her turn to come | P |
| Watches them from the wings and fatly leers | K |
| At the girl's younger face so white and dumb | P |
| And the fixed anguished eyes ready for tears | K |
| She lies beside him with a false wedding ring | Q |
| In a cheap room with moonlight on the floor | D |
| The moonlit curtains remind her much of spring | Q |
| Of a spring evening on the Coney shore | D |
| And while he sleeps knowing she ought to hate | R |
| She still clings to the lover that she knew | S |
| The one that with a pencil on a plate | R |
| Drew a heart and wrote 'I'd die for you ' | T |
Conrad Aiken
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