Averted Malefice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA BCDBCD| Where mandrakes crying from the moonless fen | A |
| Told how a witch with eyes of owl or bat | B |
| Found and each root maleficently fat | B |
| Pulled for her waiting cauldron on my ken | A |
| Upstole escaping to the world of men | A |
| A vapor as of some infernal vat | B |
| Across the stars it clomb and caught thereat | B |
| As if their bright regard to veil again | A |
| - | |
| Despite the web methought they knew appalled | B |
| The stealthier weft in which all sound was still | C |
| Then sprang as if the night found breath anew | D |
| A wind whereby the stars were disenthralled | B |
| Far off I heard the cry of frustrate ill | C |
| A witch that wailed above her curdled brew | D |
Clark Ashton Smith
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