Dominion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCB DDE FFE GGH IIH HHJ HHJ IIG HHG| Empress of all my life it is not known to thee | A |
| What hidden world thou holdest evermore in fee | A |
| What muffled levies rise from mist and Lethe drawn | B |
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| Waging some goblin war at thy forgotten whim | C |
| What travelers in lone Cimmeria drear and dim | C |
| Follow the rumor of thy face toward the dawn | B |
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| Plain are those nearer lands whereon thou lookest forth | D |
| Thy fields upon the south thy cities in the north | D |
| But vaster is that sealed and subterraneous realm | E |
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| High towers are built for thee with hushed demonian toil | F |
| In dayless lands and furrows drawn through a dark soil | F |
| And sable oceans crossed by many an unstarred helm | E |
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| Though unto thee is sent a tribute of fine gold | G |
| By them that delve therefor never shalt thou behold | G |
| How the ore is digged in mines too near to Erebus | H |
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| Though strange Sabean myrrh within thy censers fume | I |
| Thou shalt not ever guess the Afrit haunted gloom | I |
| Whence the rich balm was won with labor perilous | H |
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| Occulted still from thee thy power is on lost things | H |
| On alien seraphim that seek with desperate wings | H |
| Flown from their dying orb the confines of thy heaven | J |
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| Yea still thy whisper moves and magically stirs | H |
| To life the shapeless dust in shattered sepulchers | H |
| And in dark bread and wine thou art the untold leaven | J |
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| But never shalt thou dream how in some far abysm | I |
| Thy lightly spoken word has been an exorcism | I |
| Driving foul spirits from a wanderer bewrayed | G |
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| With eyes fulfilled of noon haply thou shalt not see | H |
| How in a land illumed by suns of ebony | H |
| Beneath thy breath the fiery shadows flame and fade | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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