Coldness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GBBG HIIH ABBA| Thy heart will not believe in love | A |
| Therefore is love become to me | B |
| A dream resolved to mockery | B |
| And death and life are less than love | A |
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| O bright and beautiful as flame | C |
| Thy hair and pale thy lips and eyes | D |
| Like seas wherein the waning skies | D |
| Of autumn lie in paler flame | C |
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| Forevermore thy heart abides | E |
| A dreaming crystal pure and cold | F |
| Amid whose visions manifold | F |
| No shape nor any shade abides | E |
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| Thy days are void and vain as death | G |
| The moons and morrows weave for thee | B |
| A sleep of light eternally | B |
| Where life is as a dream of death | G |
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| Chill as white jewels or the moon | H |
| And virginal as ice or fire | I |
| Thou knowest life and life's desire | I |
| As a bright mirror knows the moon | H |
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| Lo if thy heart believed in love | A |
| It were not more or less to me | B |
| I know thy love a mockery | B |
| And all my dreams less vain than love | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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