Nyctalops Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBAB DEFEGE HIJIHK LHHHMH HNHNHN HOPOHO HQHQHQ| Ye that see in darkness | A |
| When the moon is drowned | B |
| In the coiling fen mist | C |
| Far along the ground | B |
| Ye that see in darkness | A |
| Say what have ye found | B |
| - | |
| We have seen strange atoms | D |
| Trysting on the air | E |
| The dust of vanished lovers | F |
| Long parted in despair | E |
| And dust of flowers that withered | G |
| In worlds of otherwhere | E |
| - | |
| We have seen the nightmares | H |
| Winging down the sky | I |
| Bat like and silent | J |
| To where the sleepers lie | I |
| We have seen the bosoms | H |
| Of the succubi | K |
| - | |
| We have seen the crystal | L |
| Of dead Medusa's tears | H |
| We have watched the undines | H |
| That wane in stagnant weirs | H |
| And mandrakes madly dancing | M |
| By black blood swollen meres | H |
| - | |
| We have seen the satyrs | H |
| Their ancient loves renew | N |
| With moon white nymphs of cypress | H |
| Pale dryads of the yew | N |
| In the tall grass of graveyards | H |
| Weighed down with evening's dew | N |
| - | |
| We have seen the darkness | H |
| Where charnel things decay | O |
| Where atom moves with atom | P |
| In shining swift array | O |
| Like ordered constellations | H |
| On some sidereal way | O |
| - | |
| We have seen fair colors | H |
| That dwell not in the light | Q |
| Intenser gold and iris | H |
| Occult and recondite | Q |
| We have seen the black suns | H |
| Pouring forth the night | Q |
Clark Ashton Smith
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