Pour Chercher Du Nouveau Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB BBB CCC BBB DDD CCC EEE FFF GGG BBB| Call up the lordly daemon that in Cimmeria dwells | A |
| Amid the vaults untrodden long sealed with lethal spells | A |
| Amid the untouched waters of Lemur warded wells | A |
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| Call up the wiser genius who knows and understands | B |
| The lore of night and limbo who finds in tomb dark lands | B |
| The pearls and shells and wreckage that strew the dawnless strands | B |
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| Remnants of elder cargoes lost enigmatic spars | B |
| From seas without horizon washing occulted stars | B |
| From shadow sunken cycles of vaster calendars | B |
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| Call up the vagrant daemon whose vans have haply strayed | C |
| Through subterranean heavens by dead Anubis bayed | C |
| Who has seen abysmal evil aloof and undismayed | C |
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| Beholding fouler phantoms no necromancer wakes | B |
| Reptilian bulks that cumber the thick putrescent lakes | B |
| And pterodactyls brooding their nests in charnel brakes | B |
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| Hearing the unspent anger of troglodyte and Goth | D |
| The rote of gods abolished the moan of Ashtaroth | D |
| The hunger and the fury of famished Behemoth | D |
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| Call up the sapient daemon whose eyes have haply read | C |
| The cipher graven portals in planets of the dead | C |
| Who knows the dark apastrons of stars for ever sped | C |
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| Who has seen the lost eidola hewn from no earthly stone | E |
| The untrusting magic mirrors in chambers chill and lone | E |
| That hold supernal faces from heavens overthrown | E |
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| Who has heard the vatic voices of witch wrought teraphim | F |
| The wailing fires of Moloch the flames that swirl and swim | F |
| Around the blood black altars of ravening Baalim | F |
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| Who bas heard the sands of ocean far sifted on the beach | G |
| Repeating crystal echoes of some sidereal speech | G |
| Who bas heard the atoms telling their legend each to each | G |
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| Call up the errant daemon the pilgrim of strange lands | B |
| And he will come arising from shadow tided strands | B |
| With gifts of bale and beauty and wonder in his hands | B |
Clark Ashton Smith
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