Calenture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDEAFGFAFHHIIJJ KLMMNNOPQQRRSSTT FFFFFUFUVUWVXWWW

Rathe summer had sered the grass in which he layA
Under the little shadeB
The live oak madeB
While things remembered and foregoneC
Loves from the drouth of other summers drawnC
Like rootless windlestraeD
Went past him onE
The hot and lucid flowing of the dayA
The wine flask at his sideF
Shown empty he had spilledG
The last drops for oblation on the driedF
Pale rootlets dead with MayA
Of the small seeded oats no man had tilledF
He thought their death is cleanH
This tawny change that overtakes the greenH
And makes the unnumbered fragile skeletonsI
Yet yields no mortal fetor to the sunsI
Their death is clean but oursJ
Is not the death of grasses and of flowersJ
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He thought they die and live and die againK
With little travail none of little painL
But love though brief as theseM
With endless agoniesM
Of bitter and relucting breathN
Accepts refuses and receives its deathN
And here it wasO
On grass that bore the seed of the same grassP
On which I now reclineQ
That my mouth drank the wineQ
Of dregless love and beauty from the cupR
Of pagan flesh in fulness offered upR
To him that keeps forlornS
From morn to vacant mornS
The vigil of the seasons shall there comeT
Ever again the timeless tall deliriumT
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In the afternoon with burning silence filledF
Cicada like a fever sang and shrilledF
Hurrying anew his passion wearied bloodF
Through veins oppressed by heat and hebetudeF
Indifferently he watched the westering dayF
Like spreading fire consumeU
The thin last shrunken shade in which he layF
He closed his dazzled eyes in the red gloomU
Behind the sun confronting lids he sawV
A faceless and colossal woman loomU
One moment in his eyesW
Ere the dislimning vision could withdrawV
The breasts were large and dim as daylight moonsX
The hips on scarlet skiesW
Glimmered with arch of evening semilunesW
The shadowy shell curved between vast thighsW

Clark Ashton Smith



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