Grant Avenue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAC ADBDAB EBFEBF BGHGIH BJKJBK| The city's towers were limned in fire | A |
| When down the long the hill descending street | B |
| We rode as down some cataract of stars | C |
| Our hearts replete | B |
| With that rebirth of wonder and desire | A |
| We seemed to overpass the night's effulgent bars | C |
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| Quoting those lines of Baudelaire | A |
| On what delight the Town's old lovers seek | D |
| I saw your face by subtler dreams illumed | B |
| And heard you speak | D |
| Of how amid that multifold parterre | A |
| Beauty and mystery and evil softly bloomed | B |
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| Through us in throbbing unison | E |
| Strange pulses ran and secret powers thrilled | B |
| From all the thronging darkness hazardous | F |
| We twain were one | E |
| As in remembered noons by rapture stilled | B |
| When all the forest fountains sang unheard of us | F |
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| And yet how far from Arcady | B |
| And from the shores and dales of sylvan love | G |
| And yet what ghostly train of nymph and Pan | H |
| Goddess and dove | G |
| Through the walled mazes followed you and me | I |
| From out that halcyon world in which our love began | H |
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| And through the city's glare and sound | B |
| What ghosts of faint hesternal flowers blew | J |
| And freshness home from woodlands far away | K |
| Until anew | J |
| At parting in your long deep kiss I found | B |
| The savor of sweet balm and spiced immortal bay | K |
Clark Ashton Smith
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