Finis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKKLMKKNOPK QRKKSKTUKKVWXKPY| It seemed that from the west | A |
| The live red flame of sunset | B |
| Eating the dead blue sky | C |
| And cold insensate peaks | D |
| Was loosened slowly and fell | E |
| Above it a few red stars | F |
| Burned down like low candle flames | G |
| Into the gaunt black sockets | H |
| Of the chill insensible mountains | I |
| But in the ascendant skies | J |
| Cloudless like some vast corpse | K |
| Unfeatured cerementless | K |
| Succeeded nor star nor planet | L |
| It may have been that black | M |
| Pulseless dead stars arose | K |
| And crossed as of old the heavens | K |
| But came no living orb | N |
| Nor comet seeming the ghost | O |
| Homeless of an outcast world | P |
| Seeking its former place | K |
| That is no more nor shall be | Q |
| In all the cosmos again | R |
| Null blank and meaningless | K |
| As a burnt scroll that blackens | K |
| With the passing of the fire | S |
| Lay the dead infinite skies | K |
| Lo in the halls of Time | T |
| I thought the torches are out | U |
| The triumph of the gods | K |
| Or funereal pomp of demons | K |
| For which their flames were lit | V |
| Over and quiet at last | W |
| With the closing peace of night | X |
| Whose dumb impassible skies | K |
| Enfold the living world | P |
| As the sea a sinking pebble | Y |
Clark Ashton Smith
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