Amor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFF EGG| This is the fire of Hestia's careful hearth | A |
| The flame that fed on many towered Troy | B |
| Selene's light about the Latmian boy | B |
| The all consuming ardor of Melkarth | A |
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| This is the peregrine star that will return | C |
| Faithful to the olden ephemerides | D |
| The torch of corybantic mysteries | D |
| The spark still burning in the stoppered urn | C |
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| This is the lamp ancestral hands have lit | E |
| Deep in the doorless crypts of blood and bone | F |
| For you and me it is a witch fire blown | F |
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| Where secret airs and obscure pinions flit | E |
| That has outburned Walpurgis and the moon | G |
| And lifts in quenchless rose to a cloudy noon | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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