A Small Room In Aspen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DBAC EAFG AHHI JKLM NAAA OPAQ RAST EUAV WAXV| Stains 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 |
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