The House Of Dust: Part 03: 03: Haunted Chambers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB DEFGF HIJCJ KLMNM OPQNQ OORBR SSTAT

The lamplit page is turned the dream forgottenA
The music changes tone you wake rememberB
Deep worlds you lived before mdash deep worlds hereafterB
Of leaf on falling leaf music on musicC
Rain and sorrow and wind and dust and laughterB
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Helen was late and Miriam came too soonD
Joseph was dead his wife and children starvingE
Elaine was married and soon to have a childF
You dreamed last night of fiddler crabs with fiddlesG
They played a buzzing melody and you smiledF
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To morrow mdash what And what of yesterdayH
Through soundless labyrinths of dream you passI
Through many doors to the one door of allJ
Soon as it's opened we shall hear a musicC
Or see a skeleton fallJ
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We walk with you Where is it that you lead usK
We climb the muffled stairs beneath high lanternsL
We descend again We grope through darkened cellsM
You say this darkness here will slowly kill meN
It creeps and weighs upon me Is full of bellsM
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This is the thing remembered I would forget mdashO
No matter where I go how soft I treadP
This windy gesture menaces me with deathQ
Fatigue it says and points its finger at meN
Touches my throat and stops my breathQ
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My fans mdash my jewels mdash the portrait of my husband mdashO
The torn certificate for my daughter's grave mdashO
These are but mortal seconds in immortal timeR
They brush me fade away like drops of waterB
They signify no crimeR
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Let us retrace our steps I have deceived youS
Nothing is here I could not frankly tell youS
No hint of guilt or faithlessness or threatT
Dreams mdash they are madness Staring eyes mdash illusionA
Let us return hear music and forgetT

Conrad Potter Aiken



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