Stage Direction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDDEF GBH IDJ KLMN OPQQDDRDA| It is a shabby backdrop of bright stars | A |
| one of the small interstices of time | B |
| the worn out north star northward and Orion | C |
| to westward spread in ruined light Eastward | D |
| the other stars disposed or indisposed | D |
| x ward or y ward the sick sun inflamed | D |
| and all his drunken planets growing pale | E |
| We watch them and our watching is this hour | F |
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| It is a stage of ether without space | G |
| a space of limbo without time | B |
| a faceless clock that never strikes | H |
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| and it is bloodstream at its priestlike task | I |
| the indeterminate and determined heart | D |
| that beats and beats and does not know it beats | J |
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| Here the dark synapse between nerve and nerve | K |
| the void between two atoms in the brain | L |
| darkness without term or form that sinks | M |
| between two thoughts | N |
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| Here we have sounded angel | O |
| O angel soul O memory of man | P |
| And felt the nothing that sustains our wings | Q |
| And here have seen the catalogue of things | Q |
| All in the maelstrom of the limbo caught | D |
| and whirled concentric to the funnel s end | D |
| sans number and sans meaning and sans purpose | R |
| the lack of meaning has a heart beat and | D |
| the lack of number wears a cloak of stars | A |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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