Chiarascuro: Rose Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEF ACCAGA AHCICJK ACALGA ACMNOPG AAQRAHe | A |
Fill your bowl with roses the bowl too have of crystal | B |
Sit at the western window Take the sun | C |
Between your hands like a ball of flaming crystal | B |
Poise it to let it fall but hold it still | D |
And meditate on the beauty of your existence | E |
The beauty of this that you exist at all | F |
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She | A |
The sun goes down but without lamentation | C |
I close my eyes and the stream of my sensation | C |
In this at least grows clear to me | A |
Beauty is a word that has no meaning | G |
Beauty is naught to me | A |
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He | A |
The last blurred raindrops fall from the half clear sky | H |
Eddying lightly rose tinged in the windless wake of the sun | C |
The swallow ascending against cold waves of cloud | I |
Seems winging upward over huge bleak stairs of stone | C |
The raindrop finds its way to the heart of the leaf bud | J |
But no word finds its way to the heart of you | K |
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She | A |
This also is clear in the stream of my sensation | C |
That I am content for the moment Let me be | A |
How light the new grass looks with the rain dust on it | L |
But heart is a word that has no meaning | G |
Heart means nothing to me | A |
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He | A |
To the end of the world I pass and back again | C |
In flights of the mind yet always find you here | M |
Remote pale unattached O Circe too clear eyed | N |
Watching amused your fawning tiger thoughts | O |
Your wolves your grotesque apes relent relent | P |
Be less wary for once it is the evening | G |
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She | A |
But if I close my eyes what howlings greet me | A |
Do not persuade Be tranquil Here is flesh | Q |
With all its demons Take it sate yourself | R |
But leave my thoughts to me | A |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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