Clowns' Houses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEECCFFGGHHII JJKKLLDMNNJJIIJJNNOO KKPPNNKK

Beneath the flat and paper skyA
The sun a demon's eyeA
Glowed through the air that mask of glassB
All wand'ring sounds that passB
Seemed out of tune as if the lightC
Were fiddle strings pulled tightC
The market square with spire and bellD
Clanged out the hour in HellD
The busy chatter of the heatE
Shrilled like a parakeetE
And shuddering at the noonday lightC
The dust lay dead and whiteC
As powder on a mummy's faceF
Or fawned with simian graceF
Round booths with many a hard bright toyG
And wooden brittle joyG
The cap and bells of Time the ClownH
That jangling whistled downH
Young cherubs hidden in the guiseI
Of every bird that fliesI
And star bright masks for youth to wearJ
Lest any dream that fareJ
Bright pilgrim past our ken should seeK
Hints of RealityK
Upon the sharp set grass shrill greenL
Tall trees like rattles leanL
And jangle sharp and dissilyD
But when night falls they signM
Till Pierrot moon steals slyly inN
His face more white than sinN
Black masked and with cool touch lays bareJ
Each cherry plum and pearJ
Then underneath the veiled eyesI
Of houses darkness liesI
Tall houses like a hopeless prayerJ
They cleave the sly dumb airJ
Blind are those houses paper thinN
Old shadows hid thereinN
With sly and crazy movements creepO
Like marionettes and weepO
Tall windows show InfinityK
And hard realityK
The candles weep and pry and danceP
Like lives mocked at by ChanceP
The rooms are vast as Sleep withinN
When once I ventured inN
Chill Silence like a surging seaK
Slowly enveloped meK

Dame Edith Sitwell



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