Cycles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDEFED| The sorcerer departs and his high tower is drowned | A |
| Slowly by low flat communal seas that level all | B |
| While crowding centuries retreat return and fall | B |
| Into the cyclic gulf that girds the cosmos round | A |
| Widening deepening ever outward without bound | A |
| Till the oft rerisen bells from young Atlantis call | B |
| And again the wizard mortised tower upbuilds its wall | B |
| Above a rebeginning cycle turret crowned | A |
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| New born the mage resummons stronger spells and spirits | C |
| With dazzling darkness clad about and fierier flame | D |
| Renewed by aeon curtained slumber All the powers | E |
| Of genii and Solomon the sage inherits | F |
| And there to blaze with blinding glory the bored hours | E |
| He calls upon Shem hamphorash the nameless Name | D |
Clark Ashton Smith
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