On A Chinese Vase Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCDDC EFGGE| Lovely as on the boughs of spring | A |
| Beneath the fallen suns of Ming | A |
| There bloom the flowers of the plum | B |
| Where bloomless autumn shall not come | B |
| That came for all the years of Ming | A |
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| And here the flower white herons peer | C |
| Unmoving on a waveless mere | C |
| And ever past the green bamboo | D |
| The halcyon flies toward the blue | D |
| From waters where the herons peer | C |
| - | |
| Enchanted realm of porcelain | E |
| Whereon the sunken suns remain | F |
| Wherein the perished blossoms bloom | G |
| An ancient spring defers its doom | G |
| Within this land of porcelain | E |
Clark Ashton Smith
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