Ode To Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFFDGGEDDHHDIDI JKKJDKLDLDDDDMNOONMD| What sky beheld thy primal birth | A |
| When ageless night's dimensionless extent | B |
| First knew division and the girth | A |
| Of formless heavens constraint and measurement | C |
| And when thy touch was laid | D |
| On chaos till its atom surge | E |
| Subsided as the breast | F |
| Of ocean when above the night's unrest | F |
| The morning leaps arrayed | D |
| In vesture of unshadowed skies | G |
| Was it any deep our sight decries | G |
| Or past the verge | E |
| Of vision in a firmament witheld | D |
| That like a flower from the primordial dust | D |
| Thy sun original upsprang | H |
| Lone ere the constellations sang | H |
| Their youthful p an unexcelled | D |
| Bright in the first completion of their choir | I |
| Their fullness ere the hand of Death outthrust | D |
| Broke that continuousness of younger fire | I |
| Burns yet thine earliest star | J |
| Or sank its flame | K |
| Ere came | K |
| Aldebaran and Algebar | J |
| Or stout Orion rose fulfilled | D |
| With all his starry frame | K |
| Ere any world that now | L |
| Treads to a sun unchilled | D |
| Might look upon its flaming brow | L |
| Or note its fall from paths of light uplifted | D |
| To where within the irremeable pit | D |
| All suns dethroned have drifted | D |
| To sunken paths unlit | D |
| Have all its brethren found that place | M |
| Where iron relentless shadows hem | N |
| Seeing the ruinous maw | O |
| As when the falling Titans saw | O |
| The gulf of Tartarus opening under them | N |
| Like visible oblivion for the space | M |
| Ere they were one with it | D |
Clark Ashton Smith
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