A Meeting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCEDEFGHGIGHJJJ JKJ KLJJLLJJMJJJNOPN| When all the splendour wanes | A |
| Like a slow sunset from the changeful leaves | B |
| And the grey time of rains | A |
| With hooded dawns and eves | B |
| Approaches I shall come to you once more | C |
| Some afternoon of sun and sunlit cloud | D |
| And knocking at your door | C |
| Await your soft and murmurous tread scarce heard | E |
| For sudden pulses loud | D |
| By long desire and many memories stirred | E |
| So you will come and we shall meet again | F |
| After the going down of many days | G |
| The death of many dreams | H |
| Under the gracious heavens of your gaze | G |
| My heart shall lie as some autumnal land | I |
| Fulfilled with aureate light and azure haze | G |
| The while we speak of themes | H |
| Familiar or recall forgotten things | J |
| Telling of autumn and the fallen flow'rs | J |
| And the fled wings | J |
| Lest love usurp our straitly guarded lips | J |
| And the irrevocable word be said | K |
| That ends the wordless hours | J |
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| Unheard like petals shed | K |
| In fields of poppy bloom | L |
| The moments fall and turn to memories | J |
| Though Love foresees | J |
| Here in the sunlit room | L |
| The ultimate night and silence of his doom | L |
| But not too heavily the burden weighs | J |
| While your sweet gaze | J |
| Lingers upon me like a tranquil light | M |
| And all the murmured music of your voice | J |
| Becomes an echo for the songless days | J |
| And heart and soul rejoice | J |
| Knowing your presence for a little while | N |
| But dare not tell | O |
| how love has made this hour ineffable | P |
| And dare not tell the dearness of your smile | N |
Clark Ashton Smith
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