The House Delirious Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCCCCDCDCCCC CCCC EFEFCCCGHIHIJKJKLCMC MJNCN OPOPQNQNRSRT CUCVCWCWXYZYJCJA2CB2 C2B2C2JCJCHCHCD2CD2C E2QF2Q CNJNCG2CG2JH2JH2JI2J I2J2CJ2CEK2NEN K2CK2CL2IM2ICN2CO2 TIB2II2B2IP2G2Q2G2JR 2J G2G2A | |
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Come in and tread thou quietly | B |
Within the duskiness | C |
This twilight thou dost see | C |
Is but the moment passing Make no guess | C |
Upon these ragged tapestries | C |
Horrid with time | D |
And stained with memories | C |
The undisturbed grime | D |
Of cryptic years | C |
Conceals those happenings | C |
Unbrushed by recollection and unwashed by tears | C |
The music moans It is the past that sings | C |
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These corridors These corridors and halls | C |
This change of light and gathered mystery | C |
These whisperings this silent dust that palls | C |
The buried gone are mine a solemn property | C |
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Here with padded feet | E |
Within the night | F |
I move with muffled beat | E |
Head bowed in shame at some foul sight | F |
Forever raking in some dim recess | C |
Peering at deeds and thoughts | C |
Grey things and dead a dreadfulness | C |
An ignorance a bittered passage fraught | G |
With dampness and sin | H |
From some vile soakage All alone | I |
I pause at tombs where none must enter in | H |
And see my name deep carved upon the stone | I |
Come in Come in If thou hast half a will | J |
To stay and learn | K |
This wilderness bestill | J |
Thine asking tongue and follow me nor turn | K |
Upon thy track | L |
My rooms My rooms | C |
My darling hated rooms so still so sad | M |
How in my dreams the tall wall looms | C |
And rises in threat Mad Mad | M |
Bestir thy limbs and follow noiselessly | J |
This way This way | N |
I hear the murmur of the outside sea | C |
And the coming of the day | N |
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The yonder arches with their feeble strength | O |
Have been my pride | P |
And when the length | O |
Of this main hall has died | P |
Within forgetfulness will yet live long | Q |
And those ambitious stairs in ruined disarray | N |
May still be worthy of a song | Q |
At Judgement Day | N |
These avenues of searching youth | R |
Wind on and wind again | S |
They brought no treasure just a truth | R |
A knowing and with knowledge pain | T |
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Come though with me | C |
Look not on here and here | U |
But loiter now on this my fondest memory | C |
My sweetest tear | V |
My ferns My fountains And my singing birds | C |
And this Aye this was love | W |
Oh what a place Here rang those ardent words | C |
Of youth to the wild sky above | W |
No roof impeded | X |
The calling of her name | Y |
No roof was needed | Z |
No indiscretion here no shame | Y |
Often often in the summer still | J |
Of night I creep within the star domed space | C |
And stand upon these stone until | J |
She comes she always comes a smile upon | A2 |
her face | C |
A smile and yet and yet | B2 |
I sometimes wish the soothing dust | C2 |
Would sprinkle here and I forget | B2 |
And all theses golden railings mould in rust | C2 |
But still the playing waters rise and purl | J |
A plaintive song singing to stars | C |
And all because a girl | J |
Has come within the bars | C |
Of an existence painting all therein | H |
With coloured melodies | C |
And quieting that sordid din | H |
With witcheries | C |
These perfumed flowers here may never fade | D2 |
This passioned orchid and that rose s folds | C |
Yon nodding violet within the shade | D2 |
All bear eternal blossoming that memory holds | C |
Pass on though pleasant youth thou canst not | E2 |
linger long | Q |
The tune has passed with time and left an | F2 |
echoed song | Q |
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But now away and keep apace with me | C |
Within this sorry vault in slow decay | N |
My earthly store of learning lies all rottingly | J |
Disused and dusty dustier every day | N |
This chest unloose the lid contains | C |
The robes of life the masks of mind | G2 |
Veneers and cloaks asmear with wanton stains | C |
That Vice has left behind | G2 |
Uplift that shirt of mail that saved the soul | J |
And guarded well the tender bud that grew | H2 |
And kept unsoiled the under roll | J |
Of white from crime it never knew | H2 |
I wore it constantly awhile | J |
But in a youthful rashness put it by | I2 |
And wore this undervest and with a smile | J |
Of doubtful bravery stood naked to the sky | I2 |
Uphold the garment once so white that failed | J2 |
To fend me from those evil things | C |
That tore these holes with claws long nailed | J2 |
And left it yellow with imaginings | C |
Gaze on the purple garment of conceit | E |
Adorned with tattered trappings of a cheap | K2 |
Display | N |
Tis meet Tis meet | E |
The folly still outlives the fool s decay | N |
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These rooms I know not They are full of sleep | K2 |
And haunting shapes of dreams | C |
That flicker silently and creep | K2 |
Within the darkness from the beams | C |
Of our perception time long lost | L2 |
Dreams long dreamed and never known | I |
Deeds of unthought cost | M2 |
Seeds long sown | I |
Rooms of cloud and mistiness | C |
Where lurking shadows wait | N2 |
Rooms of sorrowed shiftiness | C |
Breathing opiate | O2 |
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And so the structure stands time built of brain | T |
wrought stone | I |
Where I have wandered and will wander yet | B2 |
Until each bone | I |
Of this frail body rots the ruin falls and I | I2 |
forget | B2 |
But still I build each stone on rocking stone | I |
I have my plans sometimes they fail A Greater | P2 |
Mind | G2 |
Than mine has other plans his Will be done | Q2 |
Until the last lone brick is lined | G2 |
Upon the finished whole | J |
And through the trembling ether comes the calling | R2 |
Of the soul | J |
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But go Tis time Within the tired mind | G2 |
I feel the dawn and feel the morning wind | G2 |
Leon Gellert
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