The House Of Dust: Part 02: 03: Interlude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFGGFCCHII JKJLLMMNONPN| The warm sun dreams in the dust the warm sun falls | A |
| On bright red roofs and walls | A |
| The trees in the park exhale a ghost of rain | B |
| We go from door to door in the streets again | C |
| Talking laughing dreaming turning our faces | D |
| Recalling other times and places | D |
| We crowd not knowing why around a gate | E |
| We crowd together and wait | E |
| A stretcher is carried out voices are stilled | F |
| The ambulance drives away | G |
| We watch its roof flash by hear someone say | G |
| 'A man fell off the building and was killed | F |
| Fell right into a barrel ' We turn again | C |
| Among the frightened eyes of white faced men | C |
| And go our separate ways each bearing with him | H |
| A thing he tries but vainly to forget | I |
| A sickened crowd a stretcher red and wet | I |
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| A hurdy gurdy sings in the crowded street | J |
| The golden notes skip over the sunlit stones | K |
| Wings are upon our feet | J |
| The sun seems warmer the winding street more bright | L |
| Sparrows come whirring down in a cloud of light | L |
| We bear our dreams among us bear them all | M |
| Like hurdy gurdy music they rise and fall | M |
| Climb to beauty and die | N |
| The wandering lover dreams of his lover's mouth | O |
| And smiles at the hostile sky | N |
| The broker smokes his pipe and sees a fortune | P |
| The murderer hears a cry | N |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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