Canticle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFF CCGGHBBBIIFF| In my heart a wizard book | A |
| Only love shall ever look | A |
| Darling when thou readest there | B |
| Wisely falter and forbear | B |
| Ere thou turn'st the pages olden | C |
| Deeply writ and deeply folden | C |
| Where the legends of lost moons | D |
| Lie in chill unchanging runes | D |
| Trifle not with charm or spell | E |
| Heptagram or pentacle | E |
| Leave in silence long unsaid | F |
| All the words that wake the dead | F |
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| Darling in my heart withholden | C |
| Letters rubrical and golden | C |
| Tell the secret of our love | G |
| And the philtred spells thereof | G |
| There my memories of thee | H |
| Half of all the gramarie | B |
| Are a firm unfading lore | B |
| Read but these and read no more | B |
| Shall it profit thee to find | I |
| Loves that went with snow and wind | I |
| Leave in silence long unsaid | F |
| All the words that wake the dead | F |
Clark Ashton Smith
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