Beyond The Great Wall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IAAIG| Beyond the far Cathayan wall | A |
| A thousand leagues athwart the sky | B |
| The scarlet stars and mornings die | B |
| The gilded moons and sunsets fall | A |
| - | |
| Across the sulphur colored sands | C |
| With bales of silk the camels fare | D |
| Harnessed with vermeil and with vair | D |
| Into the blue and burning lands | C |
| - | |
| And ah the song the drivers sing | E |
| To while the desert leagues away | F |
| A song they sang in old Cathay | F |
| Ere youth had left the eldest king | E |
| - | |
| Ere love and beauty both grew old | G |
| And wonder and romance were flown | H |
| On irised wings to worlds unknown | H |
| To stars of undiscovered gold | G |
| - | |
| And I their alien words would know | I |
| And follow past the lonely wall | A |
| Where gilded moons and sunsets fall | A |
| As in a song of long ago | I |
| ENDH echo ' body' gt | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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