North Infinity Street Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD CCEE CCFF GGBB| The alarm clocks tick in a thousand furnished rooms | A |
| tick and are wound for a thousand separate dooms | A |
| all down both sides of North Infinity Street | B |
| you hear that contrapuntal pawnshop beat | B |
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| Hall bedrooms attic rooms where the gas ring sings | C |
| rooms in the basement where the loud doorbell rings | C |
| carpeted or bare by the rail at the head of the stair | D |
| the curtains drawn a mirror a bed and a chair | D |
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| in midnight darkness when the last footfall creaks | C |
| in northeast rain when the broken window leaks | C |
| at dawn to the sound of dishes the kitchen steam | E |
| at dusk when the muted radio croons a dream | E |
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| there amid combs and the waiting shoes and socks | C |
| and the bathrobes hung in closets tick the clocks | C |
| on the chest of drawers on the table beside the bed | F |
| facing the pillow facing the recumbent head | F |
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| yes from here to forever from here to never | G |
| one long sidereal curve of ticking fever | G |
| all down both sides of North Infinity Street | B |
| you hear that contrapuntal pawnshop beat | B |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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