Ode (o) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABABCAACAAACADAAD EEFGHIIJGJG| O young and dear and tender sorceress | A |
| Your delicate slim hands | A |
| Reweave the glamors of Hellenic lands | A |
| To enchant the noon or night | B |
| With many a soft caress | A |
| Restore the lost and lyrical delight | B |
| The limbs of maenads flown | C |
| Have given you their grace | A |
| And immemorial Aprils haunt your face | A |
| All that was not but should have been mine own | C |
| Your gentle beauty brings | A |
| Till the heart finds again its forfeit wings | A |
| The young Favonian loves | A |
| That passed aversely darkling and unknown | C |
| About your bosom dwell like coted doves | A |
| Long fallen fruits by necromancy burn | D |
| Upon your lips and perished planets rise | A |
| Into the beryl evening of your eyes | A |
| And the lost autumns in your hair return | D |
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| In you each yesterday | E |
| Shall past tomorrow stay | E |
| And love would linger here | F |
| Letting your pulses tell his destined time | G |
| Through all the clement year | H |
| Yea having known your fair Arcadian heart | I |
| He would not thence depart | I |
| Harsher it were than death | J |
| To face again the lonesome rain and rime | G |
| And draw reluctant breath | J |
| From the grey rigors of an alien clime | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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