The House Of Dust: Part 02: 05: Retrospect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCA DEAEFA FGHAIHJIKK LAAMFA DNON PPBBO| Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops | A |
| Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass | A |
| A flock of pigeons rises with blue wings flashing | B |
| Rises with whistle of wings hovers an instant | C |
| And settles slowly again on the tarnished grass | A |
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| And one old man looks down from a dusty window | D |
| And sees the pigeons circling about the fountain | E |
| And desires once more to walk among those trees | A |
| Lovers walk in the noontime by that fountain | E |
| Pigeons dip their beaks to drink from the water | F |
| And soon the pond must freeze | A |
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| The light wind blows to his ears a sound of laughter | F |
| Young men shuffle their feet loaf in the sunlight | G |
| A girl's laugh rings like a silver bell | H |
| But clearer than all these sounds is a sound he hears | A |
| More in his secret heart than in his ears mdash | I |
| A hammer's steady crescendo like a knell | H |
| He hears the snarl of pineboards under the plane | J |
| The rhythmic saw and then the hammer again mdash | I |
| Playing with delicate strokes that sombre scale | K |
| And the fountain dwindles the sunlight seems to pale | K |
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| Time is a dream he thinks a destroying dream | L |
| It lays great cities in dust it fills the seas | A |
| It covers the face of beauty and tumbles walls | A |
| Where was the woman he loved Where was his youth | M |
| Where was the dream that burned his brain like fire | F |
| Even a dream grows grey at last and falls | A |
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| He opened his book once more beside the window | D |
| And read the printed words upon that page | N |
| The sunlight touched his hand his eyes moved slowly | O |
| The quiet words enchanted time and age | N |
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| 'Death is never an ending death is a change | P |
| Death is beautiful for death is strange | P |
| Death is one dream out of another flowing | B |
| Death is a chorded music softly going | B |
| By sweet transition from key to richer key | O |
| Death is a meeting place of sea and sea ' | - |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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