The House Of Dust: Part 04: 01: Clairvoyant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADE FGHG CHIH JJK LFHH MNO P QRSD FGTG LUVU W X Y| 'This envelope you say has something in it | A |
| Which once belonged to your dead son or something | B |
| He knew was fond of Something he remembers | C |
| The soul flies far and we can only call it | A |
| By things like these a photograph a letter | D |
| Ribbon or charm or watch ' | E |
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| Wind flows softly the long slow even wind | F |
| Over the low roofs white with snow | G |
| Wind blows bearing cold clouds over the ocean | H |
| One by one they melt and flow | G |
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| Streaming one by one over trees and towers | C |
| Coiling and gleaming in shafts of sun | H |
| Wind flows bearing clouds the hurrying shadows | I |
| Flow under them one by one | H |
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| ' A spirit darkens before me it is the spirit | J |
| Which in the flesh you called your son A spirit | J |
| Young and strong and beautiful | K |
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| He says that he is happy is much honored | L |
| Forgives and is forgiven rain and wind | F |
| Do not perplex him storm and dust forgotten | H |
| The glittering wheels in wheels of time are broken | H |
| And laid aside ' | - |
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| 'Ask him why he did the thing he did ' | - |
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| 'He is unhappy This thing he says transcends you | M |
| Dust cannot hold what shines beyond the dust | N |
| What seems calamity is less than a sigh | O |
| What seems disgrace is nothing ' | - |
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| 'Ask him if the one he hurt is there | P |
| And if she loves him still ' | - |
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| 'He tells you she is there and loves him still | Q |
| Not as she did but as all spirits love | R |
| A cloud of spirits has gathered about him | S |
| They praise him and call him they do him honor | D |
| He is more beautiful he shines upon them ' | - |
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| Wind flows softly the long deep tremulous wind | F |
| Over the low roofs white with snow | G |
| Wind flows bearing dreams they gather and vanish | T |
| One by one they sing and flow | G |
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| Over the outstretched lands of days remembered | L |
| Over remembered tower and wall | U |
| One by one they gather and talk in the darkness | V |
| Rise and glimmer and fall | U |
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| 'Ask him why he did the thing he did | W |
| He knows I will understand ' | - |
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| 'It is too late | X |
| He will not hear me I have lost my power ' | - |
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| 'Three times I've asked him He will never tell me | Y |
| God have mercy upon him I will ask no more ' | - |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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