The House Of Dust: Part 03: 01: As Evening Falls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDCBECFAGHHIHJKL KMMHHNNOO AALPQQRIRI| As evening falls | A |
| And the yellow lights leap one by one | B |
| Along high walls | A |
| And along black streets that glisten as if with rain | C |
| The muted city seems | D |
| Like one in a restless sleep who lies and dreams | D |
| Of vague desires and memories and half forgotten pain | C |
| Along dark veins like lights the quick dreams run | B |
| Flash are extinguished flash again | E |
| To mingle and glow at last in the enormous brain | C |
| And die away | F |
| As evening falls | A |
| A dream dissolves these insubstantial walls mdash | G |
| A myriad secretly gliding lights lie bare | H |
| The lovers rise the harlot combs her hair | H |
| The dead man's face grows blue in the dizzy lamplight | I |
| The watchman climbs the stair | H |
| The bank defaulter leers at a chaos of figures | J |
| And runs among them and is beaten down | K |
| The sick man coughs and hears the chisels ringing | L |
| The tired clown | K |
| Sees the enormous crowd a million faces | M |
| Motionless in their places | M |
| Ready to laugh and seize and crush and tear | H |
| The dancer smooths her hair | H |
| Laces her golden slippers and runs through the door | N |
| To dance once more | N |
| Hearing swift music like an enchantment rise | O |
| Feeling the praise of a thousand eyes | O |
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| As darkness falls | A |
| The walls grow luminous and warm the walls | A |
| Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving | L |
| Moving like music secret and rich and warm | P |
| How shall we live tonight Where shall we turn | Q |
| To what new light or darkness yearn | Q |
| A thousand winding stairs lead down before us | R |
| And one by one in myriads we descend | I |
| By lamplit flowered walls long balustrades | R |
| Through half lit halls which reach no end | I |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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