Exile Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGHI HJKLGM HLNOG MMPFQHRRM| These hills are sandy Trees are dwarfed here Crows | A |
| Caw dismally in skies of an arid brilliance | B |
| Complain in dusty pine trees Yellow daybreak | C |
| Lights on the long brown slopes a frost like dew | D |
| Dew as heavy as rain the rabbit tracks | E |
| Show sharply in it as they might in snow | F |
| But it s soon gone in the sun what good does it do | D |
| The houses on the slope or among brown trees | G |
| Are grey and shrivelled And the men who live here | H |
| Are small and withered spider like with large eyes | I |
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| Bring water with you if you come to live here | H |
| Cold tinkling cisterns or else wells so deep | J |
| That one looks down to Ganges or Himalayas | K |
| Yes and bring mountains with you white moon bearing | L |
| Mountains of ice You will have need of these | G |
| Profundities and peaks of wet and cold | M |
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| Bring also in a cage of wire or osier | H |
| Birds of a golden colour who will sing | L |
| Of leaves that do not wither watery fruits | N |
| That heavily hang on long melodious boughs | O |
| In the blue silver forests of deep valleys | G |
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| I have now been here how many years Years unnumbered | M |
| My hands grow clawlike My eyes are large and starved | M |
| I brought no bird with me I have no cistern | P |
| Where I might find the moon or river or snow | F |
| Some day for lack of these I ll spin a web | Q |
| Between two dusty pine tree tops and hang there | H |
| Face downward like a spider blown as lightly | R |
| As ghost of leaf Crows will caw about me | R |
| Morning and evening I shall drink the dew | M |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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