Averoigne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEBAF BGHIIHGBB JKLBBLKJJ LMNLLNMLL| In Averoigne the enchantress weaves | A |
| Weird spells that call a changeling sun | B |
| Or hale the moon of Hecate | C |
| Down to the ivy hooded towers | D |
| At evening from her nightshade bowers | D |
| The bidden vipers creep to be | E |
| The envoys of her malison | B |
| And philtres drained from tomb fat leaves | A |
| Drip through her silver sieves | F |
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| In Averoigne swart phantoms flown | B |
| From pestilent moat and stagnant lake | G |
| Glide through the garish festival | H |
| In torch lit cities far from time | I |
| Whether for death or birth the chime | I |
| Of changeless bells equivocal | H |
| Clangs forth while carven satyrs make | G |
| With mouths of sullen sombre stone | B |
| Unending silent moan | B |
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| In Averoigne abides the mage | J |
| So deep the silence of his cell | K |
| Life hears the termless monarchies | L |
| That walk with thunder echoing shoon | B |
| In iron castles past the moon | B |
| Fast moated with eternities | L |
| And hears the shrewish laughters swell | K |
| Of Norns that plot the impested age | J |
| And wars that suns shall wage | J |
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| In Averoigne the lamia sings | L |
| To lyres restored from tombs antique | M |
| And lets her coiling tresses fall | N |
| Before a necromantic glass | L |
| She sees her vein drawn lovers pass | L |
| Faintly they cry to her and all | N |
| The bale they find the bliss they seek | M |
| Is echoed in the tarnished strings | L |
| That tell archaic things | L |
Clark Ashton Smith
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