The House Of Dust: Part 03: 13: The Half-shut Doors Through Which We Heard That Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC AEFGF HEDEI| The half shut doors through which we heard that music | A |
| Are softly closed Horns mutter down to silence | B |
| The stars whirl out the night grows deep | C |
| Darkness settles upon us A vague refrain | D |
| Drowsily teases at the drowsy brain | D |
| In numberless rooms we stretch ourselves and sleep | C |
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| Where have we been What savage chaos of music | A |
| Whirls in our dreams We suddenly rise in darkness | E |
| Open our eyes cry out and sleep once more | F |
| We dream we are numberless sea waves languidly foaming | G |
| A warm white moonlit shore | F |
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| Or clouds blown windily over a sky at midnight | H |
| Or chords of music scattered in hurrying darkness | E |
| Or a singing sound of rain | D |
| We open our eyes and stare at the coiling darkness | E |
| And enter our dreams again | I |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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