The Conversation In The Drawing Room Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFDG HIJ KLLMN OPQ RLRLS TUA VURWXYZACA2FB2| That spot of blood on the drawing room wall | A |
| No larger than a thumbnail when I looked a moment ago | B |
| Is spreading Cousin Agatha and growing brighter | C |
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| Nonsense The oriole warbles in the sunlight | D |
| The fountains gush luxuriantly above the pool | E |
| The weather is ideal on the paths a sheen | F |
| Of summer provides a constant delight | D |
| I am thinking of affiliating with a new theosophist group | G |
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| Once you could hide it with a nickel | H |
| Now it strangely assumes the shape and size of a palm | I |
| And puts out fingers Cousin Agatha Look examine it | J |
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| Some aberration of the wallpaper no doubt | K |
| Did you have an omelette for lunch and asparagus | L |
| Mrs Pisgah s husband spoke from the beyond during the s ance | L |
| Last night at Madame Irani s He seemed to have a cold | M |
| The tamborine did not function with its usual zest | N |
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| And a wrist Cousin Agatha and an arm | O |
| Like those maps in a cinema that spread | P |
| Like wind blowing over a field of wheat Cousin Agatha | Q |
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| I have warned you Hobart about reading The Turn of the Screw | R |
| And that story of Balzac s whatever the name of it is | L |
| Just before retiring They always have a decidedly bad effect upon you | R |
| I believe I will put another aspirin in the lily s vase | L |
| And now I must go to take my nap in the sunroom | S |
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| Cousin Agatha it moves like a fish wet | T |
| Wet like a fish becomes a moving thing | U |
| That spreads and reaches from the wall | A |
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| I cannot listen to you any more just now Hobart | V |
| Kindly speak to Marie about the place cards for this evening | U |
| Ah there is the oriole again how beautiful the view | R |
| From this window Yet why one wonders must Hobart begin | W |
| Gasping and screaming in such a deplorable fashion | X |
| There in the drawing room It is scarcely considerate | Y |
| Youthful animal spirits one supposes combined | Z |
| With a decided taste for the macabre Where is the barbital | A |
| Marie can never learn to leave it here by the incense burner | C |
| Ah now he has stopped and only thrashes about rather feebly on the floor | A2 |
| It is a beautiful afternoon I will get up about three fifteen | F |
| Everything is blissfully quiet now I am ready for sleep | B2 |
Weldon Kees
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