Haunted Chambers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB DEFGF HIJCJ KLMNM OPQNQ RSTBT UUOA| The lamp lit page is turned the dream forgotten | A |
| The music changes tone you wake remember | B |
| Deep worlds you lived before deep worlds hereafter | B |
| Of leaf on falling leaf music on music | C |
| Rain and sorrow and wind and dust and laughter | B |
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| Helen was late and Miriam came too soon | D |
| Joseph was dead his wife and children starving | E |
| Elaine was married and soon to have a child | F |
| You dreamed last night of fiddler crabs with fiddles | G |
| They played a buzzing melody and you smiled | F |
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| Tomorrow what And what of yesterday | H |
| Through soundless labyrinths of dream you pass | I |
| Through many doors to the one door of all | J |
| Soon as it's opened we shall hear a music | C |
| Or see a skeleton fall | J |
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| We walk with you Where is it that you lead us | K |
| We climbed the muffled stairs beneath high lanterns | L |
| We descend again We grope through darkened cells | M |
| You say 'This darkness here 'will slowly kill me | N |
| It creeps and weighs upon me is full of bells | M |
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| 'This is the thing remembered I would forget | O |
| No matter where I go how soft I tread | P |
| This windy gesture menaces me with death | Q |
| 'Fatigue ' it says and points its finger at me | N |
| Touches my throat and stops my breath | Q |
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| 'My fans my jewels the portrait of my husband | R |
| The torn certificate for my daughter's grave | S |
| These are but mortal seconds in immortal time | T |
| They brush me fade away like drops of water | B |
| They signify no crime | T |
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| 'Let us retrace our steps I have deceived you | U |
| Nothing is here I could not frankly tell you | U |
| No hint of guilt or faithlessness or threat | O |
| Dreams they are madness staring eyes illusion | A |
| Let us return hear music and forget ' | - |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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