Desert Dweller Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EFE FGF GHG HIH HJH J| There is no room in any town he said | A |
| To house the towering hugeness of my dream | B |
| It straitens me to sleep in any bed | A |
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| Whose foot is nearer than the night's extreme | B |
| There is too much of solitude in crowds | C |
| For one who has been where constellations teem | B |
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| Where boulders meet with boulders and the clouds | C |
| And hills convene who has talked at evening | D |
| With mountains clad in many colored shrouds | C |
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| Men pity me for the scant gold I bring | D |
| Unguessed within my heart the solar glare | E |
| On monstrous gems that lit my journeying | D |
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| They deem the desert flowerless and bare | E |
| Who have not seen above their heads unfold | F |
| The vast inverted lotus of blue air | E |
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| Nor know what Flanging Gardens I behold | F |
| With half shut eyes between the earth and moon | G |
| In topless iridescent tiers unrolled | F |
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| For them the planted fields their veriest boon | G |
| For me the verdure of inviolate grass | H |
| In far mirages vanishing at noon | G |
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| For them the mellowed strings the strident brass | H |
| The cry of love the clangor of great horns | I |
| The thunder burdened ways where thousands pass | H |
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| For me the silence welling from dark urns | H |
| From fountains past the utmost world and son | J |
| To overflow some day the desert bourns | H |
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| And take the sounding cities one by one | J |
Clark Ashton Smith
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