Café Talk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDEEF GHHGIJJ KL LMN MOOPQQ GRRGSTTS U BVV WXYWZZ A2B2C2A2D2E2E2F2D2E2 E2| 'Of course ' I said 'we cannot hope to find | A |
| What we are looking for in anyone | B |
| They glitter maybe but are not the sun | B |
| This pebble here that bit of apple rind | A |
| Still it's the Alpine sun that makes them burn | C |
| And what we're looking for some indirect | D |
| Glint of itself each of us may reflect | D |
| And so shed light about us as we turn ' | E |
| Sideways she looked and said 'How you go on ' | E |
| And was the stone and rind their shinings gone | F |
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| 'It is some hard dry scale we must break through | G |
| A deadness round the life I cannot make | H |
| That pebble shine Its clarity must take | H |
| Sunlight unto itself and prove it true | G |
| It is our childishness that clutters up | I |
| With scales out of the past a present speech | J |
| So that the sun's white finger cannot reach | J |
| An adult prism ' | - |
| 'Will they never stop | K |
| Your words ' she said and settled to the dark | L |
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| 'But we use words we cannot grunt or bark | L |
| Use any surer means to make that first | M |
| Sharp glare of origin again appear | N |
| Through the marred glass ' I cried 'but can you hear ' | - |
| 'Quite well you needn't shout ' I felt the thirst | M |
| Coil back into my body till it shook | O |
| And 'Are you cold ' she said then ceased to look | O |
| And picked a bit of cotton from her dress | P |
| Out in the square a child began to cry | Q |
| What was not said buzzed round us like a fly | Q |
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| I knew quite well that silence was my cue | G |
| But jabbered out 'This meeting place we need | R |
| If we can't find it still the desire may feed | R |
| And strengthen on the acts it cannot do | G |
| By suffered depredations we may grow | S |
| To bear our energies just strong enough | T |
| And at the last through perdurable stuff | T |
| A little of their radiance may show | S |
| I f we keep still ' Then she 'It's getting late ' | - |
| A waiter came and took away a plate | U |
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| Then from the darkness an accordion | B |
| 'These pauses love perhaps in them made free | V |
| Life slips out of its gross machinery | V |
| And turns upon itself in unison ' | - |
| It was quite dark now you must understand | W |
| And something of a red mouth on a wall | X |
| Joined with the music and the alcohol | Y |
| And pushed me to the fingers of her hand | W |
| Well there it was itself and quite complete | Z |
| Accountable small bones there were and meat | Z |
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| It did not press on mine or shrink away | A2 |
| And since no outgone need can long invest | B2 |
| Oblivion with a living interest | C2 |
| I drew back and had no more words to say | A2 |
| Outside the streets were like us and quite dead | D2 |
| Yet anything more suited to my will | E2 |
| I can't imagine than our very still | E2 |
| Return to no place | F2 |
| As the darkness shed | D2 |
| Increasing whiteness on the far icefall | E2 |
| A growth of light there was and that is all | E2 |
Thomas Blackburn
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