Psalm To The Desert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEA FG DD DG GAH GIFJ KF FA EFGL MDAF BEG BFD ENFO MDD LFAG FF DL AAAG| The years have set thee apart O Desert | A |
| Silence and solitude are upon thee | B |
| For the twiform sigil of the last oblivion | C |
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| Thy barrenness is bound about thee like iron | D |
| It cleveth to thee as a girdle | E |
| To the girdlestead | A |
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| Even as the skin upon a corpse | F |
| It tighteneth forever | G |
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| Thy womb is closen | D |
| the aperture made strait with stone | D |
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| The sun is impotent thereon | D |
| No less than upon the womb of the centre | G |
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| Thy breasts are fallen from roundure | G |
| They are flat and rivelled | A |
| Marah in all the milk thereof | H |
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| Though sucklest the viper | G |
| Affording him a deadly life | I |
| And givest the adder and the crotalus | F |
| To draw a replenishment of their venom | J |
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| Herpeton lies in the hollow | K |
| Between thy paps | F |
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| Though art given as a bridge to the abyss | F |
| And a wife to the nether vast | A |
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| Who hath hold upon thy middle | E |
| With immensitude for a closure of arms | F |
| And the mereness of ether | G |
| For inclustable clasping | L |
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| Though art breathed upon with a bitter breath | M |
| And a voice of infinite suspiration | D |
| A wind is about thee for the sound | A |
| Of the terrible sighing of voidness | F |
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| Thy fate is riveted upon thee | B |
| Thy doom is made fast with bolts of metal | E |
| That was mined from beneath the nadir | G |
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| A curse is gone forth against thee | B |
| A ban is proclaimes by a voice | F |
| That is stronger than the voice of the sun | D |
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| It saith Behold thou art sterile | E |
| The black field of the bottom of the gulf | N |
| Which is sown with a dust of constellations | F |
| Shall bring forth sooner than thou | O |
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| Thou womb shall concieve but of death | M |
| The turning thereof shall be dissolution | D |
| And the seed of corruption | D |
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| Even till the time of the rending | L |
| Of stars and atoms | F |
| When the Worm shall lay hold | A |
| On the heart of a God for a final pasture | G |
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| When chaos shall be taken from its place | F |
| And scattered upon the provinces of the suns | F |
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| When Hell shall heave and bespew the empyrean | D |
| With a fiery parbreak | L |
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| When the zenith shall be overflowed | A |
| With a sea of molten adamant | A |
| And vastness filled with the sound | A |
| Of the cleaving of the nadir | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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