Clowns' Houses Poem Rhyme Scheme

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BENEATH the flat and paper sky	A
The sun a demon's eye	A
Glowed through the air that mask of glass	B
All wand'ring sounds that pass	B
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Seemed out of tune as if the light	C
Were fiddle strings pulled tight	C
The market square with spire and bell	D
Clanged out the hour in Hell	D
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The busy chatter of the heat	E
Shrilled like a parakeet	E
And shuddering at the noonday light	C
The dust lay dead and white	C
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As powder on a mummy's face	F
Or fawned with simian grace	F
Round booths with many a hard bright toy	G
And wooden brittle joy	G
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The cap and bells of Time the Clown	H
That jangling whistled down	H
Young cherubs hidden in the guise	I
Of every bird that flies	I
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And star bright masks for youth to wear	J
Lest any dream that fare	J
Bright pilgrim past our ken should see	K
Hints of Reality	K
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Upon the sharp set grass shrill green	L
Tall trees like rattles lean	L
And jangle sharp and dissily	D
But when night falls they sign	M
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Till Pierrot moon steals slyly in	N
His face more white than sin	N
Black masked and with cool touch lays bare	J
Each cherry plum and pear	J
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Then underneath the veiled eyes	I
Of houses darkness lies	I
Tall houses like a hopeless prayer	J
They cleave the sly dumb air	J
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Blind are those houses paper thin	N
Old shadows hid therein	N
With sly and crazy movements creep	O
Like marionettes and weep	O
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Tall windows show Infinity	K
And hard reality	K
The candles weep and pry and dance	P
Like lives mocked at by Chance	P
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The rooms are vast as Sleep within	N
When once I ventured in	N
Chill Silence like a surging sea	K
Slowly enveloped me	K

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

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