Clark Ashton Smith

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In The Desert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIH JKLMINOLJBHGBPJQJP

I met the night in unfamiliar landsA
In realmless desolations drear and farB
Where no life was nor any shard remainedC
Of tomb or cenotaph all salient thingsD
Long since had fed the prone monotonyE
Of the null forgetful sands Here darkness carneF
Directly as a king who mounts the throneG
Of some Cimmerian primogenitureB
A waif of day I wandered beneath starsH
That seemed the unnumbered steely eyes of DeathI
Seeking the lost necropolesH
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A windJ
Rose loudly on the middle night and passedK
Laden with nameless immemorial dustL
The shapeless ghost of empires In that darkM
Alien and secret as the heart of deathI
I knew not if the wind rememberingN
Walls that were great upon its ancient wayO
Sang now their threnody or if the dustL
Tongueless itself found in the shrilling windJ
A tongue for its regret I wandering thereB
Felt but the dust's unseen mysterious kissH
Heard but the grievous wind So have I knownG
Lost visions vaguely grasp at memoryB
And fall back unrecalled Then laden stillP
With sorrow and with dustiness of EldJ
Stirring the desert dark the wind went onQ
To leave its dwindling burden at the feetJ
Of splendid morning unendurableP

Clark Ashton Smith



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