Luna Aeternalis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCCDBBD EEBBFFGG HIHIIHI BBJBJB AAABFFBFFFF| By an alien dream despatched and driven | A |
| In a land to strange stars given | A |
| Stars that summoned forth the moon | B |
| Singing a strange red eldritch rune | B |
| I heard the coming of the moon | B |
| With tremulous rim that clomb and rang | C |
| Whose rondure on the horizon rang | C |
| A gong distinct with silvern clang | C |
| Re echoing distantly until | D |
| Arisen soon | B |
| In silent silver stood the moon | B |
| Above the horizon ringing still | D |
| - | |
| Half waned and hollow was her brow | E |
| And caverned by the night but now | E |
| Her twilight turned the stars' loud rune | B |
| To muted music in a swoon | B |
| Her low light lulled the stars to drowse | F |
| Flicker and fail and vaguely rouse | F |
| I felt the silence come and go | G |
| As the red stars muttered low | G |
| - | |
| Old with moonlight lay the night | H |
| And on the desert lay | I |
| Ancient and unending light | H |
| That assured not of the day | I |
| For the half moon stood to stay | I |
| Fixed at the heavens' height | H |
| And eternal ere the day | I |
| - | |
| Triumphant stood the moon | B |
| In a false and cold and constant noon | B |
| Surely in conflict fell | J |
| The true lost sun of noon | B |
| The golden might of Uriel | J |
| Met some white demon of the moon | B |
| - | |
| By an alien dream despatched and driven | A |
| I found a land to demons given | A |
| To silvern silent demons given | A |
| That flew and fluttered from out the moon | B |
| Weaving about her tomb white face | F |
| With mop and mow and mad grimace | F |
| And circling down from the semilune | B |
| In a serpentine and sinister dance | F |
| To pirouette and pause and prance | F |
| To withdraw and advance | F |
| AII in a wan eternal dance | F |
Clark Ashton Smith
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