The House Of Dust: Part 02: 09: Interlude Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC CEDE DCFDF GHAH IJGJ FKLK| The days the nights flow one by one above us | A |
| The hours go silently over our lifted faces | B |
| We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea | C |
| Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together | D |
| We sleep we wake we laugh we pursue we flee | C |
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| We sit at tables and sip our morning coffee | C |
| We read the papers for tales of lust or crime | E |
| The door swings shut behind the latest comer | D |
| We set our watches regard the time | E |
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| What have we done I close my eyes remember | D |
| The great machine whose sinister brain before me | C |
| Smote and smote with a rhythmic beat | F |
| My hands have torn down walls the stone and plaster | D |
| I dropped great beams to the dusty street | F |
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| My eyes are worn with measuring cloths of purple | G |
| And golden cloths and wavering cloths and pale | H |
| I dream of a crowd of faces white with menace | A |
| Hands reach up to tear me My brain will fail | H |
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| Here where the walls go down beneath our picks | I |
| These walls whose windows gap against the sky | J |
| Atom by atom of flesh and brain and marble | G |
| Will build a glittering tower before we die | J |
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| The young boy whistles hurrying down the street | F |
| The young girl hums beneath her breath | K |
| One goes out to beauty and does not know it | L |
| And one goes out to death | K |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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