The House Of Dust: Part 01: 02: One, From His High Bright Window In A Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDC EEFGF HHIJKKLL MNIJNOne from his high bright window in a tower | A |
Leans out as evening falls | B |
And sees the advancing curtain of the shower | A |
Splashing its silver on roofs and walls | B |
Sees how swift as a shadow it crosses the city | C |
And murmurs beyond far walls to the sea | C |
Leaving a glimmer of water in the dark canyons | D |
And silver falling from eave and tree | C |
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One from his high bright window looking down | E |
Peers like a dreamer over the rain bright town | E |
And thinks its towers are like a dream | F |
The western windows flame in the sun's last flare | G |
Pale roofs begin to gleam | F |
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Looking down from a window high in a wall | H |
He sees us all | H |
Lifting our pallid faces towards the rain | I |
Searching the sky and going our ways again | J |
Standing in doorways waiting under the trees | K |
There in the high bright window he dreams and sees | K |
What we are blind to we who mass and crowd | L |
From wall to wall in the darkening of a cloud | L |
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The gulls drift slowly above the city of towers | M |
Over the roofs to the darkening sea they fly | N |
Night falls swiftly on an evening of rain | I |
The yellow lamps wink one by one again | J |
The towers reach higher and blacker against the sky | N |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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