Quest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEBBBBFFBBGGFF HHIIJFBBF BBAA| All beneath a wintering sky | A |
| Follow the wastrel butterfly | A |
| With vermilion leaf or bronze | B |
| Tatters of gorgeous gonfalons | B |
| With the winds that always hold | C |
| Echo of clarions lost and old | C |
| We must hasten hasten on | D |
| Toward the azure world withdrawn | E |
| We must wander wander so | B |
| Where the ruining roses go | B |
| Where the poplar's pallid leaves | B |
| Drift among the gathered sheaves | B |
| In that harvest none shall glean | F |
| Where the twisted willows lean | F |
| In their strange tormented woe | B |
| Seeing on the streamlet's flow | B |
| Half their fragile leaves depart | G |
| Where the secret pines at heart | G |
| High funereal vespertine | F |
| Guard eternal sorrows green | F |
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| We shall follow we shall find | H |
| Haply ere the light is blind | H |
| The moulded place where Beauty lay | I |
| Moon beheld until the day | I |
| In the woven windlestrae | J |
| Or the pool of tourmaline | F |
| Rimmed with golden reeds that was | B |
| In the dawn a tiring glass | B |
| For her undelaying mien | F |
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| Ever wander wander so | B |
| Where the ruining roses go | B |
| All beneath a wintering sky | A |
| Follow the wastrel butterfly | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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