How Is It That I Am Now So Softly Awakened Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRLR CRSTUQVPWQMXXYZA2B2F C2D2RLRE2MF2D2CC2G2M LE2H2I2How is it that I am now so softly awakened | A |
My leaves shaken down with music | B |
Darling I love you | C |
It is not your mouth for I have known mouths before | D |
Though your mouth is more alive than roses | E |
Roses singing softly | F |
To green leaves after rain | G |
It is not your eyes for I have dived often in eyes | H |
Though your eyes even in the yellow glare of footlights | I |
Are windows into eternal dusk | J |
Nor is it the live white flashing of your feet | K |
Nor your gay hands catching at motes in the spotlight | L |
Nor the abrupt thick music of your laughter | M |
When against the hideous backdrop | N |
With all its crudities brilliantly lighted | O |
Suddenly you catch sight of your alarming shadow | P |
Whirling and contracting | Q |
How is it then that I am so keenly aware | R |
So sensitive to the surges of the wind or the light | L |
Heaving silently under blue seas of air | R |
Darling I love you I am immersed in you | C |
It is not the unraveled night time of your hair | R |
Though I grow drunk when you press it upon my face | S |
And though when you gloss its length with a golden brush | T |
I am strings that tremble under a bow | U |
It was that night I saw you dancing | Q |
The whirl and impalpable float of your garment | V |
Your throat lifted your face aglow | P |
Like waterlilies in moonlight were your knees | W |
It was that night I heard you singing | Q |
In the green room after your dance was over | M |
Faint and uneven through the thickness of walls | X |
How shall I come to you through the dullness of walls | X |
Thrusting aside the hands of bitter opinion | Y |
It was that afternoon early in June | Z |
When tired with a sleepless night and my act performed | A2 |
Feeling as stale as streets | B2 |
We met under dropping boughs and you smiled to me | F |
And we sat by a watery surface of clouds and sky | C2 |
I hear only the susurration of intimate leaves | D2 |
The stealthy gliding of branches upon slow air | R |
I see only the point of your chin in sunlight | L |
And the sinister blue of sunlight on your hair | R |
The sunlight settles downward upon us in silence | E2 |
Now we thrust up through grass blades and encounter | M |
Pushing white hands amid the green | F2 |
Your face flowers whitely among cold leaves | D2 |
Soil clings to you bark falls from you | C |
You rouse and stretch upward exhaling earth inhaling sky | C2 |
I touch you and we drift off together like moons | G2 |
Earth dips from under | M |
We are alone in an immensity of sunlight | L |
Specks in an infinite golden radiance | E2 |
Whirled and tossed upon silent cataracts and torrents | H2 |
Give me your hand darling We float downward | I2 |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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