Dominium In Excelsis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA CCDC DDED EEFE FFGF GGEG EHIE III| Exalt thyself be more than man | A |
| Be saint or be magician | B |
| And where the burning Sword awaits | C |
| Defy the old seraphic ban | A |
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| Thy will that climbs from dark estates | C |
| Shall divinize the godless fates | C |
| This fiery ecstasy of dream | D |
| Melt down the grim forbidden gates | C |
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| That open into spheres extreme | D |
| Beyond the starry bubbled stream | D |
| Beyond Capella past Altair | E |
| Where amaranthine gardens gleam | D |
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| Thy feet shall tread the Scorpion's lair | E |
| Thy hands shall catch the comet's hair | E |
| Or over Endor thou shalt ride | F |
| Unfrighted on the tamed Nightmare | E |
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| And thence go down where ghosts have died | F |
| And famished ghouls and vampires glide | F |
| Or tarry in years behind the tomb | G |
| Or in the multiple futures bide | F |
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| Thou shalt respire the flame and fume | G |
| Of Beltis' altars drowned in gloom | G |
| Under her sharded fanes or share | E |
| The fabled Atlantean doom | G |
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| And rise unharmed to light and air | E |
| Out of old death once more to death | H |
| With antinomian deed and thought | I |
| The planet of thy slain despair | E |
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| Till stones and atoms shadow wrought | I |
| Dissolving shall return to naught | I |
| Or into fairer shapes be brought | I |
Clark Ashton Smith
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