If Winter Remain Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGHI DDJKLFFKMNDDJ JFKOPQBKRPJFFJFBDS| Hateful and most abhorred | A |
| about us the season | B |
| of sleet of snow and of frost | C |
| reaches and seems unending | D |
| as plains whereon | B |
| lashed prisoners go | E |
| chained and enforced | F |
| to labor in glacial mines | G |
| digging the baubles of greybeard kings | H |
| of bleak Polarian lords | I |
| - | |
| Benumbed and failing | D |
| we languish for shores Canopic | D |
| that founder to vaults of fire | J |
| for streams of ensanguined lotus | K |
| drinking the candent flame | L |
| with lips unsered unsated | F |
| for valleys wherein no shadow | F |
| whether of cassia or cypress | K |
| shall harbor the ghost of ice | M |
| the winter's etiolate phantom | N |
| Benumbed and failing | D |
| we languish for shores Canopic | D |
| that founder to vaults of fire | J |
| - | |
| Fain would we hail the summer | J |
| like slaves endungeoned | F |
| beneath some floe built fortress | K |
| greeting their liberator | O |
| the hero in golden mail | P |
| But if summer should come no more | Q |
| and winter remain | B |
| a stark colossus | K |
| bestriding the years | R |
| if silent and pale | P |
| with marmoreal armor | J |
| the empire of cold | F |
| should clasp the world | F |
| to its rimed equator | J |
| beneath the low | F |
| short arc of the sun | B |
| out ringed by the far flung | D |
| orbit of death | S |
Clark Ashton Smith
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