The Harlot's House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCB BBD EED BBC FFC FFG FFG FFF EEF BBC FFC| We caught the tread of dancing feet | A |
| We loitered down the moonlit street | A |
| And stopped beneath the harlot's house | B |
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| Inside above the din and fray | C |
| We heard the loud musicians play | C |
| The Treues Liebes Herz of Strauss | B |
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| Like strange mechanical grotesques | B |
| Making fantastic arabesques | B |
| The shadows raced across the blind | D |
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| We watched the ghostly dancers spin | E |
| To sound of horn and violin | E |
| Like black leaves wheeling in the wind | D |
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| Like wire pulled automatons | B |
| Slim silhouetted skeletons | B |
| Went sidling through the slow quadrille | C |
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| They took each other by the hand | F |
| And danced a stately saraband | F |
| Their laughter echoed thin and shrill | C |
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| Sometimes a clockwork puppet pressed | F |
| A phantom lover to her breast | F |
| Sometimes they seemed to try to sing | G |
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| Sometimes a horrible marionette | F |
| Came out and smaoked its cigarette | F |
| Upon the steps like a live thing | G |
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| Then turning to my love I said | F |
| The dead are dancing with the dead | F |
| The dust is whirling with the dust | F |
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| But she she heard the violin | E |
| And left my side and entered in | E |
| Love passed into the house of lust | F |
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| Then suddenly the tune went false | B |
| The shadows wearied of the waltz | B |
| The shadows ceased to wheel and whirl | C |
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| And down the long and silent street | F |
| The dawn with silver sandalled feet | F |
| Crept like a frightened girl | C |
Oscar Wilde
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