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Improvisations: Light And Snow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I	A
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The girl in the room beneath	B
Before going to bed	C
Strums on a mandolin	D
The three simple tunes she knows	E
How inadequate they are to tell how her heart feels	F
When she has finished them several times	G
She thrums the strings aimlessly with her finger nails	H
And smiles and thinks happily of many things	I
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II	A
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I stood for a long while before the shop window	J
Looking at the blue butterflies embroidered on tawny silk	K
The building was a tower before me	L
Time was loud behind me	L
Sun went over the housetops and dusty trees	M
And there they were glistening brilliant motionless	N
Stitched in a golden sky	A
By yellow patient fingers long since turned to dust	O
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III	A
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The first bell is silver	P
And breathing darkness I think only of the long scythe of time	Q
The second bell is crimson	R
And I think of a holiday night with rockets	S
Furrowing the sky with red and a soft shatter of stars	T
The third bell is saffron and slow	J
And I behold a long sunset over the sea	L
With wall on wall of castled cloud and glittering balustrades	L
The fourth bell is color of bronze	L
I walk by a frozen lake in the dun light of dusk	U
Muffled crackings run in the ice	L
Trees creak birds fly	A
The fifth bell is cold clear azure	P
Delicately tinged with green	V
One golden star hangs melting in it	W
And towards this sleepily I go	J
The sixth bell is as if a pebble	X
Had been dropped into a deep sea far above me	L
Rings of sound ebb slowly into the silence	L
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IV	-
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On the day when my uncle and I drove to the cemetery	L
Rain rattled on the roof of the carriage	Y
And talkng constrainedly of this and that	Z
We refrained from looking at the child's coffin on the seat before us	L
When we reached the cemetery	L
We found that the thin snow on the grass	L
Was already transparent with rain	A2
And boards had been laid upon it	W
That we might walk without wetting our feet	B2
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V	L
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When I was a boy and saw bright rows of icicles	L
In many lengths along a wall	C2
I was dissappointed to find	D2
That I could not play music upon them	E2
I ran my hand lightly across them	E2
And they fell tinkling	F2
I tell you this young man so that your expectations of life	-
Will not be too great	G2
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VI	-
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It is now two hours since I left you	H2
And the perfume of your hands is still on my hands	L
And though since then	I2
I have looked at the stars walked in the cold blue streets	L
And heard the dead leaves blowing over the ground	J2
Under the trees	L
I still remember the sound of your laughter	P
How will it be lady when there is none left to remember you	H2
Even as long as this	L
Will the dust braid your hair	K2
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VII	-
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The day opens with the brown light of snowfall	L2
And past the window snowflakes fall and fall	C2
I sit in my chair all day and work and work	M2
Measuring words against each other	P
I open the piano and play a tune	N2
But find it does not say what I feel	O2
I grow tired of measuring words against each other	P
I grow tired of these four walls	L
And I think of you who write me that you have just had a daughter	P
And named her after your first sweetheart	P2
And you who break your heart far away	Q2
In the confusion and savagery of a long war	R2
And you who worn by the bitterness of winter	P
Will soon go south	S2
The snowflakes fall almost straight in the brown light	T2
Past my window	J
And a sparrow finds refuge on my window ledge	U2
This alone comes to me out of the world outside	V2
As I measure word with word	W2
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VIII	-
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Many things perplex me and leave me troubled	X2
Many things are locked away in the white book of stars	L
Never to be opened by me	L
The starr'd leaves are silently turned	Y2
And the mooned leaves	L
And as they are turned fall the shadows of life and death	Z2
Perplexed and troubled	X2
I light a small light in a small room	A3
The lighted walls come closer to me	L
The familiar pictures are clear	B3
I sit in my favourite chair and turn in my mind	D2
The tiny pages of my own life whereon so little is written	R
And hear at the eastern window the pressure of a long wind coming	F2
From I know not where	K2
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How many times have I sat here	C3
How many times will I sit here again	I2
Thinking these same things over and over in solitude	D3
As a child says over and over	P
The first word he has learned to say	Q2
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IX	Q2
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This girl gave her heart to me	L
And this and this	Q2
This one looked at me as if she loved me	L
And silently walked away	Q2
This one I saw once and loved and never saw her again	I2
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Shall I count them for you upon my fingers	Q2
Or like a priest solemnly sliding beads	Q2
Or pretend they are roses pale pink yellow and white	T2
And arrange them for you in a wide bowl	E3
To be set in sunlight	T2
See how nicely it sounds as I count them for you	H2
'This girl gave her heart to me	L
And this and this	Q2
And nevertheless my heart breaks when I think of them	E2
When I think their names	Q2
And how like leaves they have changed and blown	F3
And will lie at last forgotten	R
Under the snow	J
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X	Q2
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It is night time and cold and snow is falling	F2
And no wind grieves the walls	Q2
In the small world of light around the arc lamp	G3
A swarm of snowflakes falls and falls	Q2
The street grows silent The last stranger passes	Q2
The sound of his feet in the snow is indistinct	H3
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What forgotten sadness is it on a night like this	Q2
Takes possession of my heart	P2
Why do I think of a camellia tree in a southern garden	R
With pink blossoms among dark leaves	Q2
Standing surprised in the snow	J
Why do I think of spring	F2
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The snowflakes helplessly veering	F2
Fall silently past my window	J
They come from darkness and enter darkness	Q2
What is it in my heart is surprised and bewildered	W2
Like that camellia tree	L
Beautiful still in its glittering anguish	I3
And spring so far away	Q2
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XI	L
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As I walked through the lamplit gardens	Q2
On the thin white crust of snow	J
So intensely was I thinking of my misfortune	R
So clearly were my eyes fixed	J3
On the face of this grief which has come to me	L
That I did not notice the beautiful pale colouring	F2
Of lamplight on the snow	J
Nor the interlaced long blue shadows of trees	Q2
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And yet these things were there	K2
And the white lamps and the orange lamps and the lamps of lilac were there	K2
As I have seen them so often before	R2
As they will be so often again	I2
Long after my grief is forgotten	R
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And still though I know this and say this it cannot console me	L
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XII	Q2
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How many times have we been interrupted	K3
Just as I was about to make up a story for you	H2
One time it was because we suddenly saw a firefly	-
Lighting his green lantern among the boughs of a fir tree	L
Marvellous Marvellous He is making for himself	-
A little tent of light in the darkness	Q2
And one time it was because we saw a lilac lightning flash	L3
Run wrinkling into the blue top of the mountain	R
We heard boulders of thunder rolling down upon us	Q2
And the plat plat of drops on the window	J
And we ran to watch the rain	A2
Charging in wavering clouds across the long grass of the field	M3
Or at other times it was because we saw a star	N3
Slipping easily out of the sky and falling far off	-
Among pine dark hills	Q2
Or because we found a crimson eft	M3
Darting in the cold grass	Q2
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These things interrupted us and left us wondering	F2
And the stories whatever they might have been	D
Were never told	M3
A fairy binding a daisy down and laughing	F2
A golden haired princess caught in a cobweb	O3
A love story of long ago	J
Some day just as we are beginning again	I2
Just as we blow the first sweet note	M3
Death itself will interrupt us	Q2
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XIII	Q2
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My heart is an old house and in that forlorn old house	Q2
In the very centre dark and forgotten	R
Is a locked room where an enchanted princess	Q2
Lies sleeping	F2
But sometimes in that dark house	Q2
As if almost from the stars far away	Q2
Sounds whisper in that secret room	A3
Faint voices music a dying trill of laughter	P
And sudd	M3