In The Desert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIH JKLMINOLJBHGBPJQJP| I met the night in unfamiliar lands | A |
| In realmless desolations drear and far | B |
| Where no life was nor any shard remained | C |
| Of tomb or cenotaph all salient things | D |
| Long since had fed the prone monotony | E |
| Of the null forgetful sands Here darkness carne | F |
| Directly as a king who mounts the throne | G |
| Of some Cimmerian primogeniture | B |
| A waif of day I wandered beneath stars | H |
| That seemed the unnumbered steely eyes of Death | I |
| Seeking the lost necropoles | H |
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| A wind | J |
| Rose loudly on the middle night and passed | K |
| Laden with nameless immemorial dust | L |
| The shapeless ghost of empires In that dark | M |
| Alien and secret as the heart of death | I |
| I knew not if the wind remembering | N |
| Walls that were great upon its ancient way | O |
| Sang now their threnody or if the dust | L |
| Tongueless itself found in the shrilling wind | J |
| A tongue for its regret I wandering there | B |
| Felt but the dust's unseen mysterious kiss | H |
| Heard but the grievous wind So have I known | G |
| Lost visions vaguely grasp at memory | B |
| And fall back unrecalled Then laden still | P |
| With sorrow and with dustiness of Eld | J |
| Stirring the desert dark the wind went on | Q |
| To leave its dwindling burden at the feet | J |
| Of splendid morning unendurable | P |
Clark Ashton Smith
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