Lamia Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EFE FGF G| Out of her desert lair the lamia came | A |
| A lovely serpent shaped as women are | B |
| Meeting me there she hailed me by the name | A |
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| Belov d lips had used in days afar | B |
| And when the lamia sang it seemed I heard | C |
| The voice of love in some old avatar | B |
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| Her lethal beauty like a philtre stirred | C |
| Through all my blood and filled my heart with light | D |
| I wedded her with ardor undeterred | C |
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| By the strange mottlings of her body white | D |
| By the things that crept across us in her den | E |
| And the dead who lay beside us through the night | D |
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| Colder her flesh than the serpents of the fen | E |
| Yet on her breast I lost mine ancient woe | F |
| And found the joy forbid to living men | E |
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| But ah it was a thousand years ago | F |
| I took the lovely lamia for bride | G |
| And nevermore shall they that meet me know | F |
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| It is a thousand years since I have died | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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