The House Of Dust: Part 03: 05: Melody In A Restaurant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDC BEFGH IIJKL EMNONEPQQR IISTS| The cigarette smoke loops and slides above us | A |
| Dipping and swirling as the waiter passes | B |
| You strike a match and stare upon the flame | C |
| The tiny fire leaps in your eyes a moment | D |
| And dwindles away as silently as it came | C |
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| This melody you say has certain voices | B |
| They rise like nereids from a river singing | E |
| Lift white faces and dive to darkness again | F |
| Wherever you go you bear this river with you | G |
| A leaf falls and it flows and you have pain | H |
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| So says the tune to you but what to me | I |
| What to the waiter as he pours your coffee | I |
| The violinist who suavely draws his bow | J |
| That man who folds his paper overhears it | K |
| A thousand dreams revolve and fall and flow | L |
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| Some one there is who sees a virgin stepping | E |
| Down marble stairs to a deep tomb of roses | M |
| At the last moment she lifts remembering eyes | N |
| Green leaves blow down The place is checked with shadows | O |
| A long drawn murmur of rain goes down the skies | N |
| And oaks are stripped and bare and smoke with lightning | E |
| And clouds are blown and torn upon high forests | P |
| And the great sea shakes its walls | Q |
| And then falls silence And through long silence falls | Q |
| This melody once more | R |
| 'Down endless stairs she goes as once before ' | - |
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| So says the tune to him but what to me | I |
| What are the worlds I see | I |
| What shapes fantastic terrible dreams | S |
| I go my secret way down secret alleys | T |
| My errand is not so simple as it seems | S |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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