Beyond The Great Wall Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IAAIGBeyond 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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