The Dance Of Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK FFLLIIMMMMNNOOIIIIII KKNNPPIIQQRRFFBBIIMM MMIINNSSMMFFTTNNMMMM UUIIFF| Gracious and lovable and sweet | A |
| She made his jaded pulses beat | A |
| And made the glare of streets grow dim | B |
| And life more soft and hushed for him | B |
| Over her shoulder now she smiled | C |
| Trustfully to him like a child | C |
| The while her fingers gayly moved | D |
| Alonge these white keys dearly loved | E |
| Making them laugh a jocund measure | F |
| Making them show and sing her pleasure | F |
| A smile that dwelt upon his eyes | G |
| To see what mood might therein rise | G |
| What point of soft light seen afar | H |
| Which might dilate to moon or star | H |
| A smile that for a second space | I |
| Brooded wistfully on her face | I |
| Opening soft her spirit's door | J |
| Disclosing depths undreamed before | J |
| Passionate depths of half seen flame | K |
| Young loveliness despising shame | K |
| Desire that trembled to meet desire | F |
| And fire that yearned to fuse with fire | F |
| And lightly then she turned away | L |
| Ironic music rippled gay | L |
| Subtle sarcastic flippancies | I |
| Disguising speechless ecstasies | I |
| 'Play something else ' He rose to turn | M |
| The pages while the deep nocturne | M |
| Struck slow rich chords of plangent pain | M |
| Beautiful into heart and brain | M |
| A tortured anguished suffering thing | N |
| That seemed at once to cry and sing | N |
| Despairing love that strove to find | O |
| The face beloved with fingers blind | O |
| He saw her body's slender grace | I |
| This drooping shoulder shadowed face | I |
| All of her body hidden so | I |
| In saffron satin's flush and flow | I |
| Its white and simple loveliness | I |
| Came on his heart like giddiness | I |
| Seductive as this music came | K |
| Until her body seemed like flame | K |
| Intense white flame so swiftly moving | N |
| That it gave scarcely time for loving | N |
| But rapid as the sun she seemed | P |
| A blinding light that flowed and streamed | P |
| And sang and shone through roaring space | I |
| The sun itself for now her face | I |
| Wherein this music's whole soul dwelt | Q |
| Drew him like helpless star he felt | Q |
| A fierce compulsion reckless mad | R |
| A sweet compulsion troubled glad | R |
| His trembling hands went out to her | F |
| Her cool flesh made his senses blur | F |
| While head thrown backward sinking dim | B |
| She opened wide her soul to him | B |
| Past his life went whirls of lights | I |
| Chaos of music days and nights | I |
| Her wild eyes yearned to lure him in | M |
| And close him up in dark of sin | M |
| To lure him in and drink him down | M |
| And all his soul in love to drown | M |
| Her nakedness he seemed to see | I |
| And breast to breast and knee to knee | I |
| Tremulous breathless swaying burning | N |
| Body to beautiful body yearning | N |
| In joy and terror flesh to flesh | S |
| They flamed in passion's fine red mesh | S |
| Living in one short breath again | M |
| The cosmic tide's whole bliss and pain | M |
| Darkness and ether nebulous fire | F |
| Vast suns whirled forth by vast desire | F |
| Huge moons flung out with monstrous mirth | T |
| And stars in glorious hells of birth | T |
| All jubilating blazing reeling | N |
| An orgiastic splendor wheeling | N |
| Moon torn from earth and star from sun | M |
| In screaming pain titanic fun | M |
| And stars whirled back to sun again | M |
| To be consumed in flaming pain | M |
| In them at last all life was met | U |
| They were God's self This earth had set | U |
| Mad fires of life sang through their veins | I |
| Ruinous blisses joyous pains | I |
| Life the destroyer life the breaker | F |
| And death the everlasting maker | F |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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