Turns And Movies: Rose And Murray Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDFGFGHIIDD JKJKLMLMNONOPKPK QDQDRSRAfter the movie when the lights come up | A |
He takes her powdered hand behind the wings | B |
She all in yellow like a buttercup | A |
Lifts her white face yearns up to him and clings | B |
And with a silent gliding step they move | C |
Over the footlights in familiar glare | D |
Panther like in the Tango whirl of love | E |
He fawning close on her with idiot stare | D |
Swiftly they cross the stage O lyric ease | F |
The drunken music follows the sure feet | G |
The swaying elbows intergliding knees | F |
Moving with slow precision on the beat | G |
She was a waitress in a restaurant | H |
He picked her up and taught her how to dance | I |
She feels his arms lifts an appealing glance | I |
But knows he spent last evening with Zudora | D |
And knows that certain changes are before her | D |
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The brilliant spotlight circles them around | J |
Flashing the spangles on her weighted dress | K |
He mimics wooing her without a sound | J |
Flatters her with a smoothly smiled caress | K |
He fears that she will someday queer his act | L |
Feeling his anger He will quit her soon | M |
He nods for faster music He will contract | L |
Another partner under another moon | M |
Meanwhile 'smooth stuff ' He lets his dry eyes flit | N |
Over the yellow faces there below | O |
Maybe he'll cut down on his drinks a bit | N |
Not to annoy her and spoil the show | O |
Zudora waiting for her turn to come | P |
Watches them from the wings and fatly leers | K |
At the girl's younger face so white and dumb | P |
And the fixed anguished eyes ready for tears | K |
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She lies beside him with a false wedding ring | Q |
In a cheap room with moonlight on the floor | D |
The moonlit curtains remind her much of spring | Q |
Of a spring evening on the Coney shore | D |
And while he sleeps knowing she ought to hate | R |
She still clings to the lover that she knew | S |
The one that with a pencil on a plate | R |
Drew a heart and wrote 'I'd die for you ' | - |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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