Bacchante Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAB ACCAC DAADA EFFEF GHHGH IAAIA ABJAB| Men say the gods have flown | A |
| The Golden Age is but a fading story | B |
| And Greece was transitory | B |
| Yet on this hill hesperian we have known | A |
| The ancient madness and the ancient glory | B |
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| Under the thyrse upholden | A |
| We have felt the thrilling presence of the god | C |
| And you Bacchante shod | C |
| With moonfire and with moonfire all enfolden | A |
| Have danced upon the mystery haunted sod | C |
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| With every autumn blossom | D |
| And with the brown and verdant leaves of vine | A |
| We have filled your hair divine | A |
| From the cupped hollow of your delicious bosom | D |
| We have drunk wine Bacehante purple wine | A |
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| About us now the night | E |
| Grows mystical with gleams and shadows cast | F |
| By moons for ever past | F |
| And in your steps O dancer of our delight | E |
| Wild phantoms move invisible and fast | F |
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| Behind before us sweep | G |
| Maenad and Bassarid in spectral rout | H |
| With many an unheard shout | H |
| Cithaeron looms with every festal steep | G |
| Over this hill resolved to dream and doubt | H |
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| What Power flows through us | I |
| And makes the old delirium mount amain | A |
| And brims each ardent vein | A |
| With passion and with rapture perilous | I |
| Dancer of whom our votive hearts are fain | A |
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| You are that magic urn | A |
| Wherefrom is poured the pagan gramarie | B |
| Until accordantly | J |
| Within our bardic blood and spirit burn | A |
| The dreams and fevers of antiquity | B |
Clark Ashton Smith
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