The House Of Dust: Part 01: 04: Up High Black Walls, Up Sombre Terraces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC EFGF HIEIE JKLML NOCOC DPQRQ SSTET| Up high black walls up sombre terraces | A |
| Clinging like luminous birds to the sides of cliffs | B |
| The yellow lights went climbing towards the sky | C |
| From high black walls gleaming vaguely with rain | D |
| Each yellow light looked down like a golden eye | C |
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| They trembled from coign to coign and tower to tower | E |
| Along high terraces quicker than dream they flew | F |
| And some of them steadily glowed and some soon vanished | G |
| And some strange shadows threw | F |
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| And behind them all the ghosts of thoughts went moving | H |
| Restlessly moving in each lamplit room | I |
| From chair to mirror from mirror to fire | E |
| From some the light was scarcely more than a gloom | I |
| From some a dazzling desire | E |
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| And there was one beneath black eaves who thought | J |
| Combing with lifted arms her golden hair | K |
| Of the lover who hurried towards her through the night | L |
| And there was one who dreamed of a sudden death | M |
| As she blew out her light | L |
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| And there was one who turned from clamoring streets | N |
| And walked in lamplit gardens among black trees | O |
| And looked at the windy sky | C |
| And thought with terror how stones and roots would freeze | O |
| And birds in the dead boughs cry | C |
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| And she hurried back as snow fell mixed with rain | D |
| To mingle among the crowds again | P |
| To jostle beneath blue lamps along the street | Q |
| And lost herself in the warm bright coiling dream | R |
| With a sound of murmuring voices and shuffling feet | Q |
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| And one from his high bright window looking down | S |
| On luminous chasms that cleft the basalt town | S |
| Hearing a sea like murmur rise | T |
| Desired to leave his dream descend from the tower | E |
| And drown in waves of shouts and laughter and cries | T |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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