L'irreparable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDA EDEDE EEDEE FGHGF EDEDE IJIKI DLDLD MNMNM OPOO NENEN| Ah can we stifle the old the long remorse | A |
| Who lives and moves full tortuously | B |
| Who feeds upon us like the worm upon the corpse | C |
| The caterpillar on the tree | D |
| Ah can we stifle now the implacable remorse | A |
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| What wine what magistral what philtre known to man | E |
| Will drown our olden enemy | D |
| Gluttonous and destructive like the courtesan | E |
| Still moiling ant wise patiently | D |
| What wine what magistral what philtre known to man | E |
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| Tell it fair sorceress if haply thou dost know | E |
| To one with anguish overborne | E |
| And like a dying man with all his wounds aflow | D |
| By hoofs of horses bruised and torn | E |
| Tell it fair sorceress if haply thou dost know | E |
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| To him the prowling wolves have scented from afar | F |
| And crows have marked within the gloom | G |
| A broken soldier who despairs in some lost war | H |
| Of cross or cenotaph or tomb | G |
| This fallen man the wolves have scented from afar | F |
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| Can one illuminate the muddy murk of heaven | E |
| Or tear the tenebrific pall | D |
| Intenser still than pitch with neither morn nor even | E |
| nor stars nor gleams funeral | D |
| Can one illuminate the muddy murk of heaven | E |
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| Our hope that burned for us behind the hostel panes | I |
| Is long outblown is dead for aye | J |
| With neither moon nor lamp we lodge in dark domains | I |
| The martyrs of an evil way | K |
| The Devil has put out all the tavern panes | I |
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| Dost love the damned O sorceress adorable | D |
| Ah tell me knowest thou the lost | L |
| Dost know Remorse whose venom dropping darts from Hell | D |
| Into the targe of souls are tossed | L |
| Dost love the damned O sorceress adorable | D |
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| The Irreparable toils with fell accursed teeth | M |
| Fretting our soul's frail monument | N |
| And often like the moiling termite delves beneath | M |
| To gnaw the ruinous fundament | N |
| The Irreparable toils with fell accursed teeth | M |
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| I have seen sometimes within the common theatre | O |
| Aflame with music sonorous | P |
| A Fay from heavens dark as the sepulchre | O |
| I have seen sometimes within the common theatre | O |
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| A Being wholly wrought of gold and gauze and light | N |
| Cast a great Satan down in scorn | E |
| But my heart long unvisited of all delight | N |
| Is like a theatre forlorn | E |
| That waits always in vain the Being winged with light | N |
Clark Ashton Smith
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