Almost Anything Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDEFGCCHIACJK LCCMNCOPQIR| Superlatively sonorous | A |
| Like a saxophone full of brass tacks and coffin nails | B |
| Reverberantly rhythmical and rhythmically reverberant | C |
| Like the quobbing of a foetus five months old | C |
| In the womb of a she baboon | D |
| Imperial romantic and picturesque | E |
| Like a merd brown fog slinking away through slum alleys | F |
| And over the city dump | G |
| Fair and pulchritudinous as a female Hottentot with buttocks two axe handles broad | C |
| And eyes that shine like rotten mackerel by moonlight | C |
| More savorous than Gorgonzola buried for two months | H |
| At the bottom of a ship load of guano | I |
| Soft and voluptuous | A |
| Like the bosom of an acaleph that is more than slightly moribund | C |
| And fragrant as a room | J |
| Where a cat was shut in by mistake | K |
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| But you say that my meaning is obscure | L |
| And that it is hard to understand what I am referring to | C |
| I ask you | C |
| Hypocrite lecteur mon sembable mon fr re | M |
| What is the use of writing this modernist poetry | N |
| If one is not permitted | C |
| To be decently or indecently cryptic on occasion | O |
| And as for the meaning | P |
| Well I am not any too sure myself | Q |
| But if you are really determined to know | I |
| I suggest that you refer the matter to some modernist critic | R |
Clark Ashton Smith
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