In Slumber Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEEFFGGFHIIJJKK LMKKKKNNOO| The stench of stagnant waters broke my dream | A |
| Wherethrough had run with living murmur and gleam | A |
| The Rivers four of the Earthly Paradise | B |
| From the azured flame of those effulgent skies | C |
| And valleys lifting censers of vast bloom | D |
| I was drawn down into a deathlier gloom | D |
| Than lies on Styx's fountain By such light | E |
| As shows the newly damned their dolorous plight | E |
| I trod the shuddering soil of that demesne | F |
| Whence larvae swarmed malignant and obscene | F |
| Like writhen mists from some Maremma reeking | G |
| Through the gross air fell incubi went seeking | G |
| Their prey that slumbered helpless at my knee | F |
| There clung the python bodied succubi | H |
| I heard the wail of them that walked apart | I |
| Each with a suckling vampire at his heart | I |
| And as I stumbled loathly on the ground | J |
| Was rent with noiseless thunder all around | J |
| To pits that teemed with direr prodigies | K |
| Grey headless coils and worm shaped infamies | K |
| Unmeasured rose above the sun that rotted | L |
| Black as a corpse in heavens thick and clotted | M |
| The rusty clang and shaken soot of wings | K |
| Deafened and stifled me from pestilent springs | K |
| Slime mantled horrors boiled with fume and hiss | K |
| To plunge in frothing fury down the abyss | K |
| Then from an outmost circle of that hell | N |
| The tumbling harpies came detestable | N |
| With beaks that in long tatters tore my breast | O |
| And wove from these their crimson wattled nest | O |
Clark Ashton Smith
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