Cleopatra Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBBDEBFGBHBEECBB HIJKA| Thy beauty is the warmth and languor of an orient autumn | A |
| Caressing all the senses | B |
| With light from skies of heavy azure | C |
| With perfume from blossoms large as thuribles | B |
| That hang in the berylline dusk of palms | B |
| With the balmy kiss of wind and wave beneath Canopus | B |
| And the songs of exotic birds | B |
| That pass in vermilion flashing flight from isle to isle | D |
| On an ocean of lazuli | E |
| O sweetness in the inmost sense | B |
| As of blood red fruits that have grown by the waters of Lethe | F |
| Or fragrance of purple lilies crushed in a cypress grove | G |
| By the sleeping limbs of Eros | B |
| Thou pervadest me with thy love | H |
| As the dawn pervadeth a valley among mountains | B |
| Or as sunset filleth the amaranth colored sea | E |
| The desire of thy heart is upon me | E |
| Like a summer wind from Cythera | C |
| Where Venus lies among the tiger lilies | B |
| By a pool whose waters arc fed from secret springs | B |
| I inhale thy love | H |
| As the breath of hidden gardens of purple and scarlet | I |
| Where Circe trails a gown | J |
| Whose colors are the reddening gold of flame | K |
| And the azure of the skies of autumn | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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