De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL| Too long alas too long | A |
| My patient heart endures | B |
| This deep and desperate wrong | A |
| To walk on fallen ways afar from yours | B |
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| O pain that loses not | C |
| Its sharp and ancient sting | D |
| O rapture unforgot | C |
| Whereof some dark tomorrow yet shall sing | D |
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| O spirit blood and bone | E |
| Whose deepening voices cry | F |
| She is mine own mine own | E |
| Though earth and all the ascendant spheres deny | F |
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| For her I have arisen | G |
| From many a broken tomb | H |
| From out the darkling prison | G |
| Of sunken worlds and avatars of doom | H |
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| For her I bear the Flame | I |
| Replenished from of yore | J |
| Unquenchably the same | I |
| Like the great fire within the planet's core | J |
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| O Flame that shall not fail | K |
| In voids of time and space | L |
| At last you shall avail | K |
| To light my feet to her abiding place | L |
Clark Ashton Smith
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