The Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIJKCLMNOPQR STSUVJ| Through that window all else being extinct | A |
| Except itself and me I saw the struggle | B |
| Of darkness against darkness Within the room | C |
| It turned and turned dived downward Then I saw | D |
| How order might if chaos wished become | E |
| And saw the darkness crush upon itself | F |
| Contracting powerfully it was as if | G |
| It killed itself slowly and with much pain | H |
| Pain The scene was pain and nothing but pain | H |
| What else when chaos draws all forces inward | I |
| To shape a single leaf | J |
| For the leaf came | K |
| Alone and shining in the empty room | C |
| After a while the twig shot downward from it | L |
| And from the twig a bough and then the trunk | M |
| Massive and coarse and last the one black root | N |
| The black root cracked the walls Boughs burst | O |
| the window | P |
| The great tree took possession | Q |
| Tree of trees | R |
| Remember when time comes how chaos died | S |
| To shape the shining leaf Then turn have courage | T |
| Wrap arms and roots together be convulsed | S |
| With grief and bring back chaos out of shape | U |
| I will be watching then as I watch now | V |
| I will praise darkness now but then the leaf | J |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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