On The Canyon-side Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCAC CDDECE CFFCCC GAAHGH| Forgotten lies the world we knew | A |
| One mile behind the looming hill | B |
| And here beside a laurel darkened rill | B |
| Slow wandering we have found | C |
| A fern lost boulder large enough for two | A |
| That sit with arms enwound | C |
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| Upon your pale delicious throat | C |
| Like a torn lace the shadows stir | D |
| While with a sharpened longing I defer | D |
| The kiss that fain would fall | E |
| And softly touch your yielded wrist and note | C |
| How loud your pulses call | E |
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| Syringa blossoms frail and old | C |
| Swept by the swiftly dying air | F |
| Fall like a fragrant snow and in your hair | F |
| Two poising petals rest | C |
| And a great moth with wings of mottled gold | C |
| Pauses before your breast | C |
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| Now while the world is far and dim | G |
| Now while the afternoon is new | A |
| Reveal I pray the rapture that is you | A |
| Hoard not the least caress | H |
| Nor the last whiteness of the breast and limb | G |
| From love made fetterless | H |
Clark Ashton Smith
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