Exotique Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDD EEF DDF| Thy mouth is like a crimson orchid flower | A |
| Whence perfume and whence poison rise unseen | B |
| To moons aswim in iris or in green | B |
| Or mix with morning in an eastern bower | A |
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| Thou shouldst have known in amarathine isles | C |
| The sunsets hued like fire of frankincense | D |
| And noontides fraught with far borne redolence | D |
| The mingled spicery of purple miles | D |
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| Thy breasts where blood and molten marble flow | E |
| Thy warm white limbs thy loins of tropic snow | E |
| These these by which desire is grown divine | F |
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| Were made for dreams in mystic palaces | D |
| For love and sleep and slow voluptuousness | D |
| And summer seas afoam like foaming wine | F |
Clark Ashton Smith
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