Clowns' Houses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECCFFGGHHII JJKKLLDMNNJJIIJJNNOO KKPPNNKKBeneath 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Blind are those houses paper thin | N |
Old shadows hid therein | N |
With sly and crazy movements creep | O |
Like marionettes and weep | O |
Tall windows show Infinity | K |
And hard reality | K |
The candles weep and pry and dance | P |
Like lives mocked at by Chance | P |
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 Sitwell
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