A Small Room In Aspen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DBAC EAFG AHHI JKLM NAAA OPAQ RAST EUAV WAXVStains on the casements | A |
dustmotes spiderless webs | A |
No chairs and a man waking up | B |
or he's falling asleep | C |
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Many first novels begin | D |
with the hero waking up | B |
which saves their authors | A |
from writing well about sleep | C |
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His life is the only novel | E |
about him Mornings | A |
he walks past the park | F |
Tai Ch'i students practicing | G |
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like slow lorises | A |
A room on the second floor | H |
He'd dreamed of a ground floor | H |
room an insistent cat | I |
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at the door its mouth pink | J |
with wrath he couldn't salve | K |
and grew to hate All afternoon | L |
he's a cloud that can't rain | M |
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There's no ordinary life | N |
in a resort town he thinks | A |
though he's wrong it laces | A |
through the silt of tourists | A |
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like worm life At dusk | O |
the light rises in his room | P |
A beautiful day all laziness | A |
and surface true without | Q |
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translation Wherever I go | R |
I'm at home he thinks | A |
smug and scared both | S |
fierce as a secret | T |
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ooo feet above sea level | E |
The dark on its way down | U |
has passed him so he seems | A |
to be rising after the risen | V |
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light as if he were to keep watch | W |
while the dark sleeps | A |
as if he and it were each | X |
other's future and children | V |
William Matthews
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