Rhapsody On A Windy Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDCCCEFDE GHHGIJCKL LCMNOGPQRS TUVW XDLBCYZA2 DHF HB2B2LCCDCCB2B2C CCCCCC HAIDDC2HD2 E2| Twelve o'clock | A |
| Along the reaches of the street | B |
| Held in a lunar synthesis | C |
| Whispering lunar incantations | C |
| Dissolve the floors of memory | D |
| And all its clear relations | C |
| Its divisions and precisions | C |
| Every street lamp that I pass | C |
| Beats like a fatalistic drum | E |
| And through the spaces of the dark | F |
| Midnight shakes the memory | D |
| As a madman shakes a dead geranium | E |
| - | |
| Half past one | G |
| The street lamp sputtered | H |
| The street lamp muttered | H |
| The street lamp said 'Regard that woman | G |
| Who hesitates towards you in the light of the door | I |
| Which opens on her like a grin | J |
| You see the border of her dress | C |
| Is torn and stained with sand | K |
| And you see the corner of her eye | L |
| Twists like a crooked pin ' | - |
| - | |
| The memory throws up high and dry | L |
| A crowd of twisted things | C |
| A twisted branch upon the beach | M |
| Eaten smooth and polished | N |
| As if the world gave up | O |
| The secret of its skeleton | G |
| Stiff and white | P |
| A broken spring in a factory yard | Q |
| Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left | R |
| Hard and curled and ready to snap | S |
| - | |
| Half past two | T |
| The street lamp said | U |
| 'Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter | V |
| Slips out its tongue | W |
| And devours a morsel of rancid butter ' | - |
| So the hand of a child automatic | X |
| Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay | D |
| I could see nothing behind that child's eye | L |
| I have seen eyes in the street | B |
| Trying to peer through lighted shutters | C |
| And a crab one afternoon in a pool | Y |
| An old crab with barnacles on his back | Z |
| Gripped the end of a stick which I held him | A2 |
| - | |
| Half past three | D |
| The lamp sputtered | H |
| The lamp muttered in the dark | F |
| - | |
| The lamp hummed | H |
| 'Regard the moon | B2 |
| La lune ne garde aucune rancune | B2 |
| She winks a feeble eye | L |
| She smiles into corners | C |
| She smoothes the hair of the grass | C |
| The moon has lost her memory | D |
| A washed out smallpox cracks her face | C |
| Her hand twists a paper rose | C |
| That smells of dust and old Cologne | B2 |
| She is alone | B2 |
| With all the old nocturnal smells | C |
| That cross and cross across her brain ' | - |
| The reminiscence comes | C |
| Of sunless dry geraniums | C |
| And dust in crevices | C |
| Smells of chestnuts in the streets | C |
| And female smells in shuttered rooms | C |
| And cigarettes in corridors | C |
| And cocktail smells in bars ' | - |
| - | |
| The lamp said | H |
| 'Four o'clock | A |
| Here is the number on the door | I |
| Memory | D |
| You have the key | D |
| The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair | C2 |
| Mount | H |
| The bed is open the tooth brush hangs on the wall | D2 |
| Put your shoes at the door sleep prepare for life ' | - |
| - | |
| The last twist of the knife | E2 |
T. S. Eliot
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