Senlin, A Biography: Part 03: His Cloudy Destiny - 01 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEFEGHIJEKLMNOP OQOMMBB| Senlin sat before us and we heard him | A |
| He smoked his pipe before us and we saw him | A |
| Was he small with reddish hair | B |
| Did he light his pipe with a meditative stare | B |
| And a twinkling flame reflected in blue eyes | C |
| 'I am alone' said Senlin 'in a forest of leaves | D |
| The single leaf that creeps and falls | E |
| The single blade of grass in a desert of grass | F |
| That none foresaw and none recalls | E |
| The single shell that a green wave shatters | G |
| In tiny specks of whiteness on brown sands | H |
| How shall you understand me with your hearts | I |
| Who cannot reach me with your hands ' | J |
| The city dissolves about us and its walls | E |
| Are the sands beside a sea | K |
| We plunge in a chaos of dunes white waves before us | L |
| Crash on kelp tumultuously | M |
| Gulls wheel over foam the clouds blow tattered | N |
| The sun is swallowed Has Senlin become a shore | O |
| Is Senlin a grain of sand beneath our footsteps | P |
| A speck of shell upon which waves will roar | O |
| Senlin we cry Senlin again no answer | Q |
| Only the crash of sea on a shell white shore | O |
| Yet we would say this is no shore at all | M |
| But a small bright room with lamplight on the wall | M |
| And the familiar chair | B |
| Where Senlin sat with lamplight on his hair | B |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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