The House Of Dust: Part 02: 01: The Round Red Sun Heaves Darkly Out Of The Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB AACA ADED FADA GAAA HIJI| The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea | A |
| The walls and towers are warmed and gleam | B |
| Sounds go drowsily up from streets and wharves | A |
| The city stirs like one that is half in dream | B |
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| And the mist flows up by dazzling walls and windows | A |
| Where one by one we wake and rise | A |
| We gaze at the pale grey lustrous sea a moment | C |
| We rub the darkness from our eyes | A |
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| And face our thousand devious secret mornings | A |
| And do not see how the pale mist slowly ascending | D |
| Shaped by the sun shines like a white robed dreamer | E |
| Compassionate over our towers bending | D |
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| There like one who gazes into a crystal | F |
| He broods upon our city with sombre eyes | A |
| He sees our secret fears vaguely unfolding | D |
| Sees cloudy symbols shape to rise | A |
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| Each gleaming point of light is like a seed | G |
| Dilating swiftly to coiling fires | A |
| Each cloud becomes a rapidly dimming face | A |
| Each hurrying face records its strange desires | A |
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| We descend our separate stairs toward the day | H |
| Merge in the somnolent mass that fills the street | I |
| Lift our eyes to the soft blue space of sky | J |
| And walk by the well known walls with accustomed feet | I |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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