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I sit in one of the dives	A
On Fifty second Street	B
Uncertain and afraid	C
As the clever hopes expire	D
Of a low dishonest decade	C
Waves of anger and fear	E
Circulate over the bright	F
And darkened lands of the earth	G
Obsessing our private lives	H
The unmentionable odour of death	I
Offends the September night	F
Accurate scholarship can	J
Unearth the whole offence	H
From Luther until now	K
That has driven a culture mad	L
Find what occurred at Linz	H
What huge imago made	C
A psychopathic god	M
I and the public know	N
What all schoolchildren learn	O
Those to whom evil is done	P
Do evil in return	O
	-
Exiled Thucydides knew	Q
All that a speech can say	H
About Democracy	H
And what dictators do	Q
The elderly rubbish they talk	R
To an apathetic grave	S
Analysed all in his book	T
The enlightenment driven away	H
The habit forming pain	U
Mismanagement and grief	V
We must suffer them all again	W
	-
Into this neutral air	X
Where blind skyskrapers use	H
Their full height to proclaim	Y
The strength of Collective Man	J
Each language pours its vain	U
Competitive excuse	H
But who can live for long	Z
In an euphoric dream	A2
Out of the mirror they stare	X
Imperialism's face	H
And the international wrong	Z
	-
Faces along the bar	B2
Cling to their average day	H
The lights must never go out	C2
The music must always play	H
All the conventions conspire	D2
To make this fort assume	E2
The furniture of home	F2
Lest we should see where we are	B2
Lost in a haunted wood	G2
Children afraid of the night	F
Who have never been happy or good	G2
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The windiest militant trash	H2
Important Persons shout	C2
Is not so crude as our wish	I2
What mad Nijinsky wrote	J2
About Diaghilev	V
Is true of the normal heart	K2
For the error bred in the bone	L2
Of each woman and each man	J
Craves what it cannot have	V
Not universal love	V
But to be loved alone	L2
	-
From the conservative dark	M2
Into the ethical life	V
The dense commuters come	N2
Repeating their morning vow	V
'I will be true to the wife	V
I'll concentrate more on my work '	-
And helpless governors wake	O2
To resume their compulsory game	Y
Who can release them now	V
Who can reach the deaf	V
Who can speak for the dumb	N2
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All I have is a voice	H
To undo the folded lie	P2
The romantic lie in the brain	U
Of the sensual man in the street	B
And the lie of Authority	H
Whose buildings grope the sky	P2
There is no such thing as the State	Q2
And no one exists alone	L2
Hunger allows no choice	H
To the citizen or the police	H
We must love one another or die	P2
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Defenceless under the night	F
Our world in stupor lies	H
Yet dotted everywhere	X
Ironic points of light	F
Flash out wherever the Just	R2
Exchange their messages	H
May I composed like them	S2
Of Eros and of dust	R2
Beleaguered by the same	Y
Negation and despair	X
Show an affirming flame	Y

W. H. Auden

September 1, 1939 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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