The House Of Dust: Part 03: 06: Portrait Of One Dead Poem Rhyme Scheme

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This is the house On one side there is darkness	A
On one side there is light	B
Into the darkness you may lift your lanterns mdash	C
O any number mdash it will still be night	B
And here are echoing stairs to lead you downward	D
To long sonorous halls	E
And here is spring forever at these windows	F
With roses on the walls	E
	-
This is her room On one side there is music mdash	C
On one side not a sound	G
At one step she could move from love to silence	H
Feel myriad darkness coiling round	G
And here are balconies from which she heard you	I
Your steady footsteps on the stair	J
And here the glass in which she saw your shadow	K
As she unbound her hair	J
	-
Here is the room mdash with ghostly walls dissolving mdash	C
The twilight room in which she called you 'lover'	J
And the floorless room in which she called you 'friend '	-
So many times in doubt she ran between them mdash	C
Through windy corridors of darkening end	L
	-
Here she could stand with one dim light above her	J
And hear far music like a sea in caverns	M
Murmur away at hollowed walls of stone	N
And here in a roofless room where it was raining	O
She bore the patient sorrow of rain alone	N
	-
Your words were walls which suddenly froze around her	J
Your words were windows mdash large enough for moonlight	B
Too small to let her through	J
Your letters mdash fragrant cloisters faint with music	P
The music that assuaged her there was you	J
	-
How many times she heard your step ascending	O
Yet never saw your face	Q
She heard them turn again ring slowly fainter	J
Till silence swept the place	Q
Why had you gone The door perhaps mistaken	R
You would go elsewhere The deep walls were shaken	R
	-
A certain rose leaf mdash sent without intention mdash	C
Became with time a woven web of fire mdash	C
She wore it and was warm	S
A certain hurried glance let fall at parting	O
Became with time the flashings of a storm	S
	-
Yet there was nothing asked no hint to tell you	J
Of secret idols carved in secret chambers	T
From all you did and said	U
Nothing was done until at last she knew you	J
Nothing was known till somehow she was dead	U
	-
How did she die mdash You say she died of poison	R
Simple and swift And much to be regretted	V
You did not see her pass	W
So many thousand times from light to darkness	A
Pausing so many times before her glass	W
	-
You did not see how many times she hurried	X
To lean from certain windows vainly hoping	O
Passionate still for beauty remembered spring	O
You did not know how long she clung to music	P
You did not hear her sing	O
	-
Did she then make the choice and step out bravely	Y
From sound to silence mdash close herself those windows	F
Or was it true instead	U
That darkness moved mdash for once mdash and so possessed her	J
We'll never know you say for she is dead	U

Conrad Potter Aiken

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