Twilights, V Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST UVWXYOOZXUA2B2C2OU| Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds | A |
| Whirs and whirls in the heavens with dipping rim | B |
| Against the ice white wall of light in the west | C |
| Skeleton trees bow down in a stream of air | D |
| Leaves black leaves and smoke are blown on the wind | E |
| Mount upward past my window swoop again | F |
| In a sharp silence loudly loudly falls | G |
| The first cold drop striking a shriveled leaf | H |
| Doom and dusk for the earth Upward I reach | I |
| To draw chill curtains and shut out the dark | J |
| Pausing an instant with uplifted hand | K |
| To watch between black ruined portals of cloud | L |
| One star the tottering portals fall and crush it | M |
| Here are a thousand books here is the wisdom | N |
| Alembicked out of dust or out of nothing | O |
| Choose now the weightiest word most golden page | P |
| Most somberly musicked line hold up these lanterns | Q |
| These paltry lanterns wisdoms philosophies | R |
| Above your eyes against this wall of darkness | S |
| And you'll see what One hanging strand of cobweb | T |
| A window sill a half inch deep in dust | U |
| Speak out old wise men Now if ever we need you | V |
| Cry loudly lift shrill voices like magicians | W |
| Against this baleful dusk this wail of rain | X |
| But you are nothing Your pages turn to water | Y |
| Under my fingers cold cold and gleaming | O |
| Arrowy in the darkness rippling dripping | O |
| All things are rain Myself this lighted room | Z |
| What are we but a murmurous pool of rain | X |
| The slow arpeggios of it liquid sibilant | U |
| Thrill and thrill in the dark World deep I lie | A2 |
| Under a sky of rain Thus lies the sea shell | B2 |
| Under the rustling twilight of the sea | C2 |
| No gods remember it no understanding | O |
| Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light | U |
Conrad Potter Aiken
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