Senlin: His Cloudy Destiny Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Senlin sat before us and we heard him	B
He smoked his pipe before us and we saw him	B
Was he small with reddish hair	C
Did he light his pipe with a meditative stare	C
And a twinkling flame reflected in blue eyes	D
'I am alone' said Senlin 'in a forest of leaves	E
The single leaf that creeps and falls	F
The single blade of grass in a desert of grass	G
That none foresaw and none recalls	F
The single shell that a green wave shatters	H
In tiny specks of whiteness on brown sands	I
How shall you understand me with your hearts	J
Who cannot reach me with your hands '	-
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The city dissolves about us and its walls	F
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
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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	C
Where Senlin sat with lamplight on his hair	C
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Senlin alone before us played a music	R
Was it himself he played We sat and listened	S
Perplexed and pleased and tired	N
'Listen ' he said 'and you will learn a secret	T
Though it is not the secret you desired	N
I have not found a meaning that will praise you	U
Out of the heart of silence comes this music	R
Quietly speaks and dies	D
Look there is one white star above black houses	V
And a tiny man who climbs toward the skies	D
Where does he walk to What does he leave behind him	B
What was his foolish name	W
What did he stop to say before he left you	U
As simply as he came	W
Death did it sound like love and god and laughter	Q
Sunlight and work and pain	X
No it appears to me that these were symbols	Y
Of simple truths he found no way to explain	X
He spoke but found you could not understand him	B
You were alone and he was alone	Z
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He sought to touch you and found he could not reach you	U
He sought to understand you and could not hear you	U
And so this music which I play before you	U
Does it mean only what it seems to mean	A2
Or is it a dance of foolish waves in sunlight	B2
Above a desperate depth of things unseen	A2
Listen Do you not hear the singing voices	V
Out of the darkness of this sea	K
But no you cannot hear them for if you heard them	C2
You would have heard and captured me	K
Yet I am here talking of laughter	Q
Laughter and love and work and god	D2
As I shall talk of these same things hereafter	Q
In wave and sod	D2
Walk on a hill and call me Senlin Senlin	A2
Will I not answer you as clearly as now	A2
Listen to rain and you will hear me speaking	E2
Look for my heart in the breaking of a bough '	-
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Senlin stood before us in the sunlight	B2
And laughed and walked away	F2
Did no one see him leaving the doors of the city	K
Looking behind him as if he wished to stay	F2
Has no one in the forests of the evening	E2
Heard the sad horn of Senlin slowly blown	A2
For somewhere in the worlds in worlds about us	L
He changes still unfriended and alone	A2
Is he the star on which we walk at daybreak	G2
The light that blinds our eyes	D
'Senlin ' we cry 'Senlin ' again no answer	Q
Only the soulless brilliance of blue skies	D
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Yet we would say this was no man at all	M
But a dream we dreamed and vividly recall	M
And we are mad to walk in wind and rain	A2
Hoping to find somewhere that dream again	A2

Conrad Potter Aiken

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