Melody In A Restaurant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC BEFGH IIJKL EMNONEPQQRR IISTS

The cigarette smoke loops and slides above usA
Dipping and swirling as the waiter passesB
You strike a match and stare upon the flameC
The tiny firelight leaps in your eyes a momentD
And dies away as silently as it cameC
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This melody you say has certain voicesB
They rise like nereids from a river singingE
Lift white faces and dive to darkness againF
Wherever you go you bear this river with youG
A leaf falls and it flows and you have painH
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So says the tune to you but what to meI
What to the waiter as he pours your coffeeI
The violinist who suavely draws his bowJ
That man who folds his paper overhears itK
A thousand dreams revolve and fall and flowL
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Someone there is who sees a virgin steppingE
Down marble stairs to a deep tomb of rosesM
At the last moment she lifts remembering eyesN
Green leaves blow down the place is checked with shadowsO
A long drawn murmur of rain goes down the skiesN
And oaks are stripped and bare and smoke with lightningE
And clouds are blown and torn upon high forestsP
And the great sea shakes its wallsQ
And then falls silence And through long silence fallsQ
This melody once moreR
Down endless stairs she goes as once beforeR
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So says the tune to him but what to meI
What are the worlds I seeI
What shapes fantastic terrible dreamsS
I go my secret way down secret alleysT
My errand is not so simple as it seemsS

Conrad Potter Aiken



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