Ode To Matter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACABBDEDEEDFGHIFI JKI LMAMLN ANOOPQRASRAS TUJTUKVWAAVWXXV| O tissued fabric of the frame of things | A |
| Thou art an alternating tide | B |
| And Life a moment's foam | C |
| Thy shifting wave upflings | A |
| Billowed with suns and worlds that roam | C |
| Where winds of Force direct with driving wings | A |
| Thy depths immingle and divide | B |
| A sea whereto the gulfs as shores abide | B |
| In peaceless rounds of change | D |
| Thy forms irrevocably flee | E |
| Inevitable laws estrange | D |
| All shapes of stars and worlds that be | E |
| And like a mist's inconstant fantasy | E |
| Ensphered anew as alien forms they range | D |
| Lo here a sun is smitten into night | F |
| One with the cosmic mire | G |
| And yonder startles into fire | H |
| The dust of stars destroyed | I |
| Whose quickened worlds resume their ancient flight | F |
| Till arms of darkness rising from the void | I |
| Drag down the pillared suns again | J |
| And other systems rise and wane | K |
| Rebuilt from star and asteroid | I |
| - | |
| Lo is there end | L |
| Or rest unto thy toil | M |
| Thou who createst many forms | A |
| Yet none that stay of all thy fruitful soil | M |
| Shall all the terms of living suns extend | L |
| And find thy labour incomplete | N |
| - | |
| All storms | A |
| Where stars irreparably meet | N |
| Prepare not thy potential field | O |
| Unto some larger yield | O |
| Than aught the systems show some fruit more great | P |
| Some flower ultimate | Q |
| Thine atoms pour | R |
| Through moulds of many worlds and suns | A |
| As they have passed | S |
| In years beyond all memory and lore | R |
| As they shall flee while Time his orbit runs | A |
| Along abysmal aeons cast | S |
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| What strivest thou to build | T |
| With dust of systems reared and rent | U |
| And flame of suns blown out and lit again | J |
| Dost toil with hands as yet unskilled | T |
| To some obscurely known intent | U |
| Far sought through mists of weariness and pain | K |
| Ah dare we dream | V |
| That thou shalt dream no fairer thing than man | W |
| No higher world than this | A |
| That from thine unexplorable abyss | A |
| No stronger Life shall rise supreme | V |
| Wrought from rejected dust whereof began | W |
| All former Life | X |
| The dust remoulded through abyssal strife | X |
| Within the suns' uncompassable scheme | V |
Clark Ashton Smith
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