A Dancer's Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOMPQRM STUVWXLLUOYZ| The lights in the theater fail The long racks | A |
| Of costumes abandoned by the other dancers | B |
| Trouble Celeste The conductor asks | C |
| If she is sad because autumn is coming on | D |
| But when autumn comes she is merely pregnant and bored | E |
| On her way back from the holidays a man | F |
| Who appears to have no face rattles the door | G |
| To her compartment How disgusting she thinks | H |
| How disgusting it always must be to grow old | I |
| Dusk falls and a few drops of rain | J |
| On the train window trembles the blurred | K |
| Reflection of her own transparent beauty | L |
| And through this beautiful ruined cities passing | M |
| Dark forests and people everywhere | N |
| Pacing on lighted platforms some | O |
| Beating their children some apparently dancing | M |
| The costumes of the dancers sway in the chill darkness | P |
| Now sinking into sleep is like sinking again | Q |
| Into the lake of her youth Her parents | R |
| Lean from the rail of a ferryboat waving waving | M |
| As the boat glides farther out across the waves | S |
| No one it seems is meeting her at the station | T |
| The city is frozen She warms herself | U |
| In the pink and scented twilight of a bar | V |
| The waiter who serves her is young She nods assent | W |
| The conversation dies in bed Later | X |
| She hurries off to rehearsal In the lobby | L |
| Dizzy still with the weight of her own body | L |
| She waits surrounded by huge stills of herself | U |
| And bright posters announcing events to come | O |
| Her life she feels it closing about her now | Y |
| Like a small theater empty without lights | Z |
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