Malediction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EFE FGF G| While the black perennial snows | A |
| Piled about the pole of night | B |
| Swell the fount whence Lethe flows | A |
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| While the worm apart from light | B |
| Eats the page where magians pored | C |
| While the kraken blind and white | B |
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| Guards the greening books abhorred | C |
| Where the evil oghams rust | D |
| In accurst Atlantis stored | C |
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| While beneath the seal of dust | D |
| Dead mouths mutter not in sleep | E |
| To betray oblivion's trust | D |
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| While the dusky planets keep | E |
| Past the outlands of the sun | F |
| Circuits of a sunless deep | E |
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| Never shall the spell be done | F |
| And the curse be lifted never | G |
| That shall find and leave you one | F |
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| With forgotten things for ever | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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