Interim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCCCDEFFEGGGHGHIJ ICKELCCKKCH HCGMGNNM| Darling how near we lay | A |
| To Lethe on that day | A |
| When wandering far amid the wreath d fog | B |
| And through the veiling verdure spring had drawn | C |
| On slopes where fire had ravened years agone | C |
| We paused awhile and made our bed between | C |
| The mounting bushes green | C |
| And the black fallen log | D |
| Closely more closely ever | E |
| Like flames that meet and mingle in blown air | F |
| Mouth drew to mouth bosom to bosom there | F |
| In the long kiss that could not sever | E |
| Sequestered and apart | G |
| In death grey mist and silence deeplier furled | G |
| While faded the wan world | G |
| In ghostliness and mystery retreating | H |
| We felt the answering throb of heart to heart | G |
| Like one warm pulse amid oblivion beating | H |
| And our love seemed a solitary flame | I |
| Soaring from lands of pallid nothingness | J |
| That had no bound nor name | I |
| Where all hours that had been | C |
| And days to be | K |
| Were part of some abolished calendar | E |
| Where all things fell away and ebbed afar | L |
| As if dissolved within | C |
| The wavering vapors thin | C |
| Yea the pale mists and life and memory | K |
| And all things passed before our ecstasy | K |
| Like alien phantoms furtive and unknown | C |
| To their dim tombs returning | H |
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| O love unquenchable and stilly burning | H |
| The peace at thy white core was made our own | C |
| A little and we too had surely passed | G |
| With incorporeal ease | M |
| Upon the voidness vast | G |
| Going with those frail vapors like a breath | N |
| Drifting from mortal ecstasy to death | N |
| Among the ghostly trees | M |
Clark Ashton Smith
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