The House Was Quiet And The World Was Calm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CA CD EF GE HD IJ JK| The house was quiet and the world was calm | A |
| The reader became the book and summer night | B |
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| Was like the conscious being of the book | C |
| The house was quiet and the world was calm | A |
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| The words were spoken as if there was no book | C |
| Except that the reader leaned above the page | D |
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| Wanted to lean wanted much to be | E |
| The scholar to whom his book is true to whom | F |
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| The summer night is like a perfection of thought | G |
| The house was quiet because it had to be | E |
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| The quiet was part of the meaning part of the mind | H |
| The access of perfection to the page | D |
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| And the world was calm The truth in a calm world | I |
| In which there is no other meaning itself | J |
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| Is calm itself is summer and night itself | J |
| Is the reader leaning late and reading there | K |
Wallace Stevens
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