O Golden-tongued Romance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB BBCDDC DDEBBE EEFGGF CCHBBH DDEDDE| We found we knew it dimly | A |
| Within a dead life grimly | A |
| By guarding time inurned | B |
| A glamour far and olden | C |
| A fulgor night enfolden | C |
| A flame that in long darkling Eden burned | B |
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| Though hardly then we claimed it | B |
| We yet adored and named it | B |
| With a name forgotten now | C |
| A faery word and dawn like | D |
| A word of gramarie gone like | D |
| An opal bird from off a purple bough | C |
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| Ah vain the lamp reluming | D |
| The unhaunted vault inhuming | D |
| The cold Canopic jar | E |
| And vain the charm recovered | B |
| From out the daemon hovered | B |
| Worm travelled page of pentacled grimoire | E |
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| And yet the thing we yearned for | E |
| The thing that we returned for | E |
| From tomb and catacomb | F |
| It may not wholly dwindle | G |
| While moon or meteor kindle | G |
| A phantom beacon on the ebon foam | F |
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| Through ghoul watched wood unthridden | C |
| By goblin mere and midden | C |
| No ivory horn will blow | H |
| No gold lamp lighten gloom ward | B |
| But we will carry doom ward | B |
| The broken beauty caught from long ago | H |
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| An echo half evading | D |
| The ear remotely fading | D |
| From a far vibrant lyre | E |
| A long plucked flower blooming | D |
| In the dry urn a fuming | D |
| Myrrh fragrant ember in a darkened pyre | E |
Clark Ashton Smith
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