Erato Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEEFF GHIJJK LMNNCC| Ah suffer that my song | A |
| To thee alone belong | A |
| No dearer happiness my heart would choose | B |
| Than thus to cast O sweet | C |
| Each measured scroll before thy perfect feet | C |
| Having no other muse | B |
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| O wistful love how well | D |
| All that my lips would tell | D |
| All that the lyre's revibrant strings attest | E |
| Was writ upon thy breast | E |
| With kisses keen and slow | F |
| So long so long ago | F |
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| What tears are confluent | G |
| From springs and summers spent | H |
| Feeding the fount of this our Helicon | I |
| And wine forlornly poured | J |
| Or spilt for thee O maenad most adored | J |
| In feasts of moon or sun | K |
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| Let now some interval | L |
| Of lyric silence fall | M |
| Like heavy garlands let thy hair be shed | N |
| About by brow and head | N |
| While songs unsung and sweet | C |
| Within our pulses beat | C |
Clark Ashton Smith
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