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 MNIJN

One from his high bright window in a towerA
Leans out as evening fallsB
And sees the advancing curtain of the showerA
Splashing its silver on roofs and wallsB
Sees how swift as a shadow it crosses the cityC
And murmurs beyond far walls to the seaC
Leaving a glimmer of water in the dark canyonsD
And silver falling from eave and treeC
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One from his high bright window looking downE
Peers like a dreamer over the rain bright townE
And thinks its towers are like a dreamF
The western windows flame in the sun's last flareG
Pale roofs begin to gleamF
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Looking down from a window high in a wallH
He sees us allH
Lifting our pallid faces towards the rainI
Searching the sky and going our ways againJ
Standing in doorways waiting under the treesK
There in the high bright window he dreams and seesK
What we are blind to we who mass and crowdL
From wall to wall in the darkening of a cloudL
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The gulls drift slowly above the city of towersM
Over the roofs to the darkening sea they flyN
Night falls swiftly on an evening of rainI
The yellow lamps wink one by one againJ
The towers reach higher and blacker against the skyN

Conrad Potter Aiken



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