Counterpoint: Two Rooms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGDG BHIJDJ KLMNM LBOLO FPQNQ KCRDRSSTUT ADVCVHe in the room above grown old and tired | A |
She in the room below his floor her ceiling | B |
Pursue their separate dreams He turns his light | C |
And throws himself on the bed face down in laughter | D |
She by the window smiles at a starlight night | C |
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His watch the same he has heard these cycles of ages | E |
Wearily chimes at seconds beneath his pillow | F |
The clock upon her mantelpiece strikes nine | G |
The night wears on She hears dull steps above her | D |
The world whirs on New stars come up to shine | G |
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His youth far off he sees it brightly walking | B |
In a golden cloud wings flashing about it | H |
Darkness | I |
Walls it around with dripping enormous walls | J |
Old age far off or death what do they matter | D |
Down the smooth purple night a streaked star falls | J |
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She hears slow steps in the street they chime like music | K |
They climb to her heart they break and flower in beauty | L |
Along her veins they glisten and ring and burn | M |
He hears his own slow steps tread down to silence | N |
Far off they pass He knows they will never return | M |
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Far off on a smooth dark road he hears them faintly | L |
The road like a sombre river quietly flowing | B |
Moves among murmurous walls A deeper breath | O |
Swells them to sound he hears his steps more clearly | L |
And death seems nearer to him or he to death | O |
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What's death she smiles The cool stone hurts her elbow | F |
The last few raindrops gather and fall from elm boughs | P |
She sees them glisten and break The arc lamp sings | Q |
The new leaves dip in the warm wet air and fragrance | N |
A sparrbw whirs to the eaves and shakes its wings | Q |
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What's death what's death The spring returns like music | K |
The trees are like dark lovers who dream in starlight | C |
The soft grey clouds go over the stars like dreams | R |
The cool stone wounds her arms to pain to pleasure | D |
Under the lamp a circle of wet street gleams | R |
And death seems far away a thing of roses | S |
A golden portal where golden music closes | S |
Death seems far away | T |
And spring returns the countless singing of lovers | U |
And spring returns to stay | T |
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He in the room above grown old and tired | A |
Flings himself on the bed face down in laughter | D |
And clenches his hands and remembers and desires to die | V |
And she by the window smiles at a night of starlight | C |
The soft grey clouds go slowly across the sky | V |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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