Farewell To Eros Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC CDDC ECCE FGHF IJJI FKKF CCCC LAAL| Lord of the many pangs the single ecstasy | A |
| From all my rose red temple builded in thy name | B |
| Pass dawnward with no blasphemies of praise or blame | B |
| No whine of suppliant or moan of psaltery | C |
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| Not now the weary god deserts the worshipper | C |
| The worshipper the god but in some cryptic room | D |
| A tocsin tells with arras deadened tones of doom | D |
| That hour which veils the shrine and stills the chorister | C |
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| Others will make libation chant thy litanies | E |
| But when the glamored moons on immost Stygia glare | C |
| And quenchlessly the demon calling altars flare | C |
| I shall go forth to madder gods and mysteries | E |
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| And through Zothique and primal Thule wandering | F |
| A pilgrim to the shrines where elder Shadows dwell | G |
| Perhaps I shall behold such lusters visible | H |
| As turn to ash the living opal of thy wing | F |
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| Haply those islands where the sunsets sink in rest | I |
| Will yield O Love the slumber that thou hast not given | J |
| Or the broad bosomed flowers of some vermilion heaven | J |
| Will make my senses fail as on no mortal breast | I |
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| Perchance the wind on Aquilonian marches blowing | F |
| From the low mountains isled in seaas of russet grass | K |
| Will make among the reeds a sweeter shuddering pass | K |
| Than tremors through the chorded flesh of women flowing | F |
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| Perchance the fountains of the dolorous rivers four | C |
| In Dis will quench the thirst thy wine assuages never | C |
| And in my veins will mount a twice infuriate fever | C |
| When the black burning noons upon Cimmeria pour | C |
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| Yea in those ultimate lands that will outlast the Earth | L |
| Being but dream and fable myth and fantasy | A |
| I shall forget or find some image reared of thee | A |
| Dreadful and radiant far from death remote from birth | L |
Clark Ashton Smith
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