Senlin, A Biography: Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGHIHAJFJKLML NOPOQFLFRSHS| I am a house says Senlin locked and darkened | A |
| Sealed from the sun with wall and door and blind | B |
| Summon me loudly and you'll hear slow footsteps | C |
| Ring far and faint in the galleries of my mind | B |
| You'll hear soft steps on an old and dusty stairway | D |
| Peer darkly through some corner of a pane | E |
| You'll see me with a faint light coming slowly | F |
| Pausing above some gallery of the brain | E |
| I am a city In the blue light of evening | G |
| Wind wanders among my streets and makes them fair | H |
| I am a room of rock a maiden dances | I |
| Lifting her hands tossing her golden hair | H |
| She combs her hair the room of rock is darkened | A |
| She extends herself in me and I am sleep | J |
| It is my pride that starlight is above me | F |
| I dream amid waves of air my walls are deep | J |
| I am a door before me roils the darkness | K |
| Behind me ring clear waves of sound and light | L |
| Stand in the shadowy street outside and listen | M |
| The crying of violins assails the night | L |
| My walls are deep but the cries of music pierce them | N |
| They shake with the sound of drums yet it is strange | O |
| That I should know so little what means this music | P |
| Hearing it always within me change and change | O |
| Knock on the door and you shall have an answer | Q |
| Open the heavy walls to set me free | F |
| And blow a horn to call me into the sunlight | L |
| And startled then what a strange thing you will see | F |
| Nuns murderers and drunkards saints and sinners | R |
| Lover and dancing girl and sage and clown | S |
| Will laugh upon you and you will find me nowhere | H |
| I am a room a house a street a town | S |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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