The Things Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO PPQQ RSTT QQUU QQUU VWUU XXQQ YYUU UUUU NNZA2| The house in Broad Street red brick with nine rooms | A |
| the weedgrown graveyard with its rows of tombs | A |
| the jail from which imprisoned faces grinned | B |
| at stiff palmettos flashing in the wind | C |
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| the engine house with engines and a tank | D |
| in which young alligators swam and stank | D |
| the bell tower of red iron where the bell | E |
| gonged of the fires in a tone from hell | E |
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| magnolia trees with whitehot torch of bud | F |
| the yellow river between banks of mud | F |
| the tall striped lighthouse like a barber s pole | G |
| snake in the bog and locust in the hole | G |
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| worn cigarette cards of white battleships | H |
| or flags or chorus girls with scarlet lips | H |
| jackstones of copper peach tree in the yard | I |
| splashing ripe peaches on an earth baked hard | I |
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| children beneath the arc light in a romp | J |
| with Run sheep Run and rice birds in the swamp | J |
| the organ grinder s monkey dancing bears | K |
| okras in baskets Psyche on the stairs | K |
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| and then the north star nearer and the snow | L |
| silent between the now and long ago | L |
| time like a train that roared from place to place | M |
| new crowds new faces for a single face | M |
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| no longer then the chinaberry tree | N |
| nor the dark mockingbird to sing his glee | N |
| nor prawns nor catfish icicles instead | O |
| and Indian pipes and cider in the shed | O |
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| arbutus under pinewoods in the spring | P |
| and death remembered as a tropic thing | P |
| with picture postcard angels to upraise it | Q |
| and trumpet vines and hummingbirds to phrase it | Q |
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| then wisdom come and Shakspere s voice far off | R |
| to be or not upon the teacher s cough | S |
| the latent heat of melting ice the brief | T |
| hypotenuse from ecstasy to grief | T |
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| amo amas and then the cras amet | Q |
| the new found eyes no slumber could forget | Q |
| Vivien the affliction of the senses | U |
| and conjugation of historic tenses | U |
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| and Shakspere nearer come and louder heard | Q |
| and the disparateness of flesh and word | Q |
| time growing swifter and the pendulums | U |
| in shorter savage arcs that beat like drums | U |
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| hands held relinquished faces come and gone | V |
| kissed and forgotten and become but one | W |
| old shoes worn out and new ones bought the gloves | U |
| soiled and so lost in limbo like the loves | U |
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| then Shakspere in the heart the instant speech | X |
| parting the conscious terrors each from each | X |
| wisdom s dishevelment the purpose lamed | Q |
| and purposeless the footsteps eastward aimed | Q |
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| the bloodstream always slower while the clock | Y |
| followed the tired heart with louder knock | Y |
| fatigue upon the eye the tardy springs | U |
| inviting to no longer longed for things | U |
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| the birdsong nearer now than Shakspere s voice | U |
| whispers of comfort Death is near rejoice | U |
| remember now the red house with nine rooms | U |
| the graveyard with its trumpetvines and tombs | U |
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| play jackstones now and let your jackstones be | N |
| the stars that make Orion s galaxy | N |
| so to deceive yourself until you move | Z |
| into that house whose tenants do not love | A2 |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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