Alienage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEEFFGCCGHCCHII AJJKKALJMBBMCNNCCACA OO| Dear one what do we here | A |
| Petal by petal falls the alien spring | B |
| In gardens where we pass ungarlanded | C |
| And seek once more the doves and myrtles dead | C |
| In some retrieveless year | D |
| And claim no leaf or blossom for our own | E |
| O Paphos and the moons of Paphos flown | E |
| My golden dove canst thou recall | F |
| Nights when delight was all | F |
| And high desire could still outlive the dawn | G |
| Hast thou forgot | C |
| Here in the grey sad world that knows us not | C |
| The years when we were nymph and centaur drawn | G |
| To elder forests deep | H |
| That spring had turned to chrysolite and gold | C |
| Hast thou forgot the tale of kisses told | C |
| By summer waters calm as sleep | H |
| When Hesper an sunsets touched thy hair | I |
| From islands lost and fair | I |
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| Dear one what do we here | A |
| Beyond the window pane | J |
| The shifting veils of rain | J |
| Bedim the bitter world that is not ours | K |
| And on dishevelled flowers | K |
| There falls a hueless twilight brief and drear | A |
| Give me thy lips again | L |
| Let us forget the weariness and pain | J |
| And the supreme disaster of our birth | M |
| While in thy flesh my lingering | B |
| Slow kisses move and cling | B |
| And love alone hath verity or worth | M |
| Ah let me find about thy bosom's fruit | C |
| The fragile vague perfume | N |
| Of unseen lilies crushed within the gloom | N |
| Of forests lone and old | C |
| Ah let me seek in leisured long pursuit | C |
| Amid thy harvest colored hair | A |
| For suns and summers of remembered gold | C |
| And seal my lips on throat and bosom fair | A |
| Till where my kisses fell the phantom rose | O |
| Of Paphos blows | O |
Clark Ashton Smith
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