Ode On Imagination Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCADEDFFEGHIJKJIK KLBBLMNON POPQRRQOSTOSSTOUU OVOVWWOOVVOXVYXYSZOA 2OOOA2OOImagination's eyes | A |
Outreach and distance far | B |
The vision of the greatest star | B |
That measures instantaneously | C |
Enisled therein as in a sea | C |
Its cincture of the system laden skies | A |
Abysses closed about with night | D |
A tribute yield | E |
To her retardless sight | D |
And Matter's walls reveal the candent ores | F |
Rock held in furnaces of planet cores | F |
She penetrates the sun's transplendent shield | E |
And through that inner vastness sphered and dire | G |
Pierces his dreadful heart whose gurge of fire | H |
Heaves outward riven by Titanic throes | I |
And fills his frame with tide and cataract | J |
Of thunder pulsing incandescent streams | K |
Her eyes exact | J |
From the Moon Sphinx that wanes and grows | I |
In wastes celestial alien dreams | K |
Brought down on wings of spectral beams | K |
Adown the clefts of under space | L |
She rides her steed a falling star | B |
To seek where void and vagueness are | B |
Some mark or certainty of place | L |
Upon their heavenly precipice | M |
The gathered suns shrink back aghast | N |
From that interminate abyss | O |
And threat of sightless anarchs vast | N |
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She stands endued | P |
With supermundane crown and vestitures | O |
Of emperies that include | P |
All underworlds and overworlds of dream | Q |
Domains with shadow bound | R |
Cimmerian and profound | R |
And heights of some Himalaya supreme | Q |
Where moon transcending light endures | O |
She roams in grey fantasmal lands where grow | S |
In scarce discern d fields and closes blind | T |
Faint blossoms stirred by wings of eidolons | O |
Or wanders all bemused and slow | S |
In woods where only nameless echoes go | S |
And wraiths of ancient wind | T |
In twilight there she shuns | O |
The strident day while ecstasy and grief | U |
Speak only in vague whispers like the leaf | U |
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Upon some supersensual eminence | O |
She hears the fragments of a thunder loud | V |
Where lightnings of ulterior Truth intense | O |
Flame through the walls of hollow cloud | V |
But these she may not wholly grasp | W |
With unsupernal clasp | W |
Her eyes inevitably see | O |
'Neath rounds and changes of exterior things | O |
The movements of Essentiality | V |
Of ageIess principles that alter not | V |
To temporaI alterings | O |
Unswerved by shattered worlds upbuilt once more | X |
And stars no longer hot | V |
Or broken constellations strewn | Y |
Like coals about the heavenly floor | X |
And rush of night upon the noon | Y |
Of their lost worlds unsphered retrievelessly | S |
In icy deserts of the sky | Z |
From the beginning of the spheres | O |
When systems nebulous out thrown | A2 |
Drove back the brinks | O |
Of nullity with limitary marks | O |
Till end of suns and sunless death of years | O |
To her are known | A2 |
The unevident inseparable links | O |
That bind all deeps all suns all days and darks | O |
Clark Ashton Smith
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