Nightmare Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFG HIJHJ KLML MMNMN OPJ QRHR SSBTT UQVQV WTMT| 'Draw three cards and I will tell your future | A |
| Draw three cards and lay them down | B |
| Rest your palms upon them stare at the crystal | C |
| And think of time My father was a clown | B |
| My mother was a gypsy out of Egypt | D |
| And she was gotten with child in a strange way | E |
| And I was born in a cold eclipse of the moon | F |
| With the future in my eyes as clear as day ' | G |
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| I sit before the gold embroidered curtain | H |
| And think her face is like a wrinkled desert | I |
| The crystal burns in lamplight beneath my eyes | J |
| A dragon slowly coils on the scaly curtain | H |
| Upon a scarlet cloth a white skull lies | J |
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| 'Your hand is on the hand that holds three lilies | K |
| You will live long love many times | L |
| I see a dark girl here who once betrayed you | M |
| I see a shadow of secret crimes | L |
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| 'There was a man who came intent to kill you | M |
| And hid behind a door and waited for you | M |
| There was a woman who smiled at you and lied | N |
| There was a golden girl who loved you begged you | M |
| Crawled after you and died | N |
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| 'There is a ghost of murder in your blood | O |
| Coming or past I know not which | P |
| And here is danger a woman with sea green eyes | J |
| And white skinned as a witch ' | - |
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| The words hiss into me like raindrops falling | Q |
| On sleepy fire She smiles a meaning smile | R |
| Suspicion eats my brain I ask a question | H |
| Something is creeping at me something vile | R |
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| And suddenly on the wall behind her head | S |
| I see a monstrous shadow strike and spread | S |
| The lamp puffs out a great blow crashes down | B |
| I plunge through the curtain run through dark to the street | T |
| And hear swift steps retreat | T |
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| The shades are drawn the door is locked behind me | U |
| Behind the door I hear a hammer sounding | Q |
| I walk in a cloud of wonder I am glad | V |
| I mingle among the crowds my heart is pounding | Q |
| You do not guess the adventure I have had | V |
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| Yet you too all have had your dark adventures | W |
| Your sudden adventures or strange or sweet | T |
| My peril goes out from me is blown among you | M |
| We loiter dreaming together along the street | T |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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