The House Of Dust: Part 03: 03: Haunted Chambers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB DEFGF HIJCJ KLMNM OPQNQ OORBR SSTATThe lamplit page is turned the dream forgotten | A |
The music changes tone you wake remember | B |
Deep worlds you lived before mdash deep worlds hereafter | B |
Of leaf on falling leaf music on music | C |
Rain and sorrow and wind and dust and laughter | B |
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Helen was late and Miriam came too soon | D |
Joseph was dead his wife and children starving | E |
Elaine was married and soon to have a child | F |
You dreamed last night of fiddler crabs with fiddles | G |
They played a buzzing melody and you smiled | F |
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To morrow mdash what And what of yesterday | H |
Through soundless labyrinths of dream you pass | I |
Through many doors to the one door of all | J |
Soon as it's opened we shall hear a music | C |
Or see a skeleton fall | J |
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We walk with you Where is it that you lead us | K |
We climb the muffled stairs beneath high lanterns | L |
We descend again We grope through darkened cells | M |
You say this darkness here will slowly kill me | N |
It creeps and weighs upon me Is full of bells | M |
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This is the thing remembered I would forget mdash | O |
No matter where I go how soft I tread | P |
This windy gesture menaces me with death | Q |
Fatigue it says and points its finger at me | N |
Touches my throat and stops my breath | Q |
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My fans mdash my jewels mdash the portrait of my husband mdash | O |
The torn certificate for my daughter's grave mdash | O |
These are but mortal seconds in immortal time | R |
They brush me fade away like drops of water | B |
They signify no crime | R |
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Let us retrace our steps I have deceived you | S |
Nothing is here I could not frankly tell you | S |
No hint of guilt or faithlessness or threat | T |
Dreams mdash they are madness Staring eyes mdash illusion | A |
Let us return hear music and forget | T |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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