Interrogation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA CDDDC EFFEE GHHIG JDDJJ| Love will you look with me | A |
| Upon the phosphor litten labor of the worm | B |
| Time's minister who toils for his appointed term | B |
| And has for fee | A |
| All superannuate loves and all the loves to be | A |
| - | |
| Love can you see as I | C |
| The corpses ghosts and demons mingled with the crowd | D |
| The djinns that men have freed grown turbulent and proud | D |
| Alastor Asmodai | D |
| And all unheeded envoys from the stars on high | C |
| - | |
| Know you the gulfs below | E |
| Where darkling Erebus on Erebus is driven | F |
| Between the molecules atom from atom riven | F |
| And tossing to and fro | E |
| Incessant like the souls on Dante's wind of woe | E |
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| Know you the deeps above | G |
| The terror and vertigo of those who gaze too long | H |
| Upon the crystal slices unclouded Are you strong | H |
| With me to prove | I |
| Even in thought or dream the dreadful pits above | G |
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| Know you the gulfs within | J |
| The larvae the minotaurs of labyrinths undared | D |
| The somber foam of seas by cryptic sirens shared | D |
| The pestilence and sin | J |
| Borne by the flapping shroud of liches met within | J |
Clark Ashton Smith
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