Senlin, A Biography: Part 01: His Dark Origins - 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDCEEFFFGHIIJKL MNNOOPQPPQHRORSSBBSenlin sits before us and we see him | A |
He smokes his pipe before us and we hear him | A |
Is he small with reddish hair | B |
Does he light his pipe with meditative stare | B |
And a pointed flame reflected in both eyes | C |
Is he sad and happy and foolish and wise | C |
Did no one see him enter the doors of the city | D |
Looking above him at the roofs and trees and skies | C |
'I stepped from a cloud' he says 'as evening fell | E |
I walked on the sound of a bell | E |
I ran with winged heels along a gust | F |
Or is it true that I laughed and sprang from dust | F |
Has no one in a great autumnal forest | F |
When the wind bares the trees | G |
Heard the sad horn of Senlin slowly blown | H |
Has no one on a mountain in the spring | I |
Heard Senlin sing | I |
Perhaps I came alone on a snow white horse | J |
Riding alone from the deep starred night | K |
Perhaps I came on a ship whose sails were music | L |
Sailing from moon or sun on a river of light ' | M |
He lights his pipe with a pointed flame | N |
'Yet there were many autumns before I came | N |
And many springs And more will come long after | O |
There is no horn for me or song or laughter | O |
The city dissolves about us and its walls | P |
Become an ancient forest There is no sound | Q |
Except where an old twig tires and falls | P |
Or a lizard among the dead leaves crawls | P |
Or a flutter is heard in darkness along the ground | Q |
Has Senlin become a forest Do we walk in Senlin | H |
Is Senlin the wood we walk in ourselves the world | R |
Senlin we cry Senlin again No answer | O |
Only soft broken echoes backward whirled | R |
Yet we would say this is no wood at all | S |
But a small white room with a lamp upon the wall | S |
And Senlin before us pale with reddish hair | B |
Lights his pipe with a meditative stare | B |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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