Clark Ashton Smith

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Ode To Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFFDGGEDDHHDIDI JKKJDKLDLDDDDMNOONMD

What sky beheld thy primal birthA
When ageless night's dimensionless extentB
First knew division and the girthA
Of formless heavens constraint and measurementC
And when thy touch was laidD
On chaos till its atom surgeE
Subsided as the breastF
Of ocean when above the night's unrestF
The morning leaps arrayedD
In vesture of unshadowed skiesG
Was it any deep our sight decriesG
Or past the vergeE
Of vision in a firmament witheldD
That like a flower from the primordial dustD
Thy sun original upsprangH
Lone ere the constellations sangH
Their youthful p an unexcelledD
Bright in the first completion of their choirI
Their fullness ere the hand of Death outthrustD
Broke that continuousness of younger fireI
Burns yet thine earliest starJ
Or sank its flameK
Ere cameK
Aldebaran and AlgebarJ
Or stout Orion rose fulfilledD
With all his starry frameK
Ere any world that nowL
Treads to a sun unchilledD
Might look upon its flaming browL
Or note its fall from paths of light upliftedD
To where within the irremeable pitD
All suns dethroned have driftedD
To sunken paths unlitD
Have all its brethren found that placeM
Where iron relentless shadows hemN
Seeing the ruinous mawO
As when the falling Titans sawO
The gulf of Tartarus opening under themN
Like visible oblivion for the spaceM
Ere they were one with itD

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