A Dead City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDEDEC| Twilight ascends the abandoned ramps of noon | A |
| Within an ancient land whose after time | B |
| Unfathomably shadows its ruined prime | B |
| Like rising mist the night increases soon | A |
| Round shattered palaces ere yet the moon | A |
| On mute unsentried walls and turrets climb | B |
| And touch with pallor of sepulchral rime | B |
| The desert where a city's bones are strewn | A |
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| She comes at last unsepultured they show | C |
| In all the hoary starkness of old stone | D |
| From out a shadow like the lips of Death | E |
| Issues a wind that through the ruins blown | D |
| Cries like a prophet's ghost with waiting breath | E |
| The weirds of finished and forgotten woe | C |
Clark Ashton Smith
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