Chant To Sirius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEABAFGB AHIIJKKKLALKALAL| What nights retard thee O Sirius | A |
| Thy light is as a spear | B |
| And thou penetratest them | C |
| As a warrior that stabbeth his foe | D |
| Even to the center of his life | E |
| Thy rays reach farther than the gulfs | A |
| They form a bridge thereover | B |
| That shall endure till the links of the universe | A |
| Are unfastened and drop apart | F |
| And all the gulfs are one | G |
| Dissevered by suns no longer | B |
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| How strong art thou in thy place | A |
| Thou stridest thine orbit | H |
| And the darkness shakes beneath thee | I |
| As a road that is trodden by an army | I |
| Thou art a god | J |
| In thy temple that is hollowed with light | K |
| In the night of infinitude | K |
| And whose floor is the lower void | K |
| Thy worlds are as priests and ministers therein | L |
| Thou furrowest space | A |
| Even as an husbandman | L |
| And sowest it with alien seed | K |
| It beareth alien fruits | A |
| And these are thy testimony | L |
| Even as the crops of his fields | A |
| Are the testimony of an husbandman | L |
Clark Ashton Smith
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