Query Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCDC EFEGE HIJKH LMLNL ABABA| This doubtful love has slumbered long | A |
| At most a shadow mobled flame | B |
| The murmur of a muted song | A |
| And scarce will tell its rightful name | B |
| Lest love should do our friendship wrong | A |
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| Fair comrade have you found as I | C |
| A tremor in some troubling vein | D |
| When shoulders touch the subtle sigh | C |
| That is not grief that is not pain | D |
| And vague delight in being nigh | C |
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| Have you as I the peril known | E |
| Of loitering where the leaves of fall | F |
| Like tatters torn from dryads flown | E |
| Have made beneath the pines' black pall | G |
| A secret splendid bed and lone | E |
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| Sweet friend would you my silence have | H |
| A silence wrought of hushed desire | I |
| Or speech wherein like some long wave | J |
| The riven deeps of love aspire | K |
| Sweet friend would you my silence have | H |
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| Can you or I a lover find | L |
| And keep the tender friend that is | M |
| With closing arms our friendship bind | L |
| Affirm the hand clasp with a kiss | N |
| And lose not more than lovers find | L |
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| This doubtful love has slumbered long | A |
| At most a shadow mobled flame | B |
| The murmur of a muted song | A |
| And scarce will tell its rightful name | B |
| Lest love should do our friendship wrong | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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