Rêve Parisian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FAAF GHHG IJJI HGGH HHHH KGHL MHLG AGGA AGGA MAAG HAAH NAAN MAAMThe memory of this dread demesne | A |
Unknown unsought by mortal eyes | B |
That morning like some glad surprise | B |
Returns insistent dimly seen | A |
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What marvels fill the gulf of sleep | C |
By some bizarre caprice | D |
From all my dream the grass the trees | E |
Are banished in the oblivious deep | C |
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And I tho' sculptor of a world | F |
Of superbly tasteful monotone | A |
Of metal water metal flame and stone | A |
At mine enchanted will unfurled | F |
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Babel of stairs and of arcades | G |
There stands a palace infinite | H |
Where fountains fall in chrysolite | H |
On the dull gold of long estrades | G |
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And from the ramparts far and high | I |
Enormous cataracts have sprung | J |
Like heavy crystal curtains hung | J |
On the huge walls within the sky | I |
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No blooms nor bower but pools enchanted | H |
Where lies the columns' mirrored frieze | G |
By the titanic naiades | G |
Of pale and marble haunted | H |
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Blue waters endlessly are whirled | H |
Between the quays of malachite | H |
And quays of rose that stretch for light | H |
A thousand leagues athwart the world | H |
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A world of magic mineral | K |
And magic billow Shore and sea | G |
In dazzling cold immensity | H |
Redoubling and reflecting all | L |
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An architect of Fa ry | M |
I make with runes softly murmured | H |
A cavern wrought of rubacelle | L |
That passes neath the conquered sea | G |
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And all things pale or sable shine | A |
Like furbished armour flaming spaces | G |
Of land a flaming gulf enchases | G |
Immured in splendour crystalline | A |
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No star has passed no sun has flown | A |
To climb the adamantine skies | G |
Illuming these prodigies | G |
That burn with lazy beams all their own | A |
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And on this form of grammerie | M |
In even beat lies O dread demesne | A |
Where naught is heard and all is seen | A |
The silence of eternity | G |
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In silence frozen the vault beyond | H |
Great rivers negligently turn | A |
The treasure of teeming urn | A |
Adown the gulfs of diamond | H |
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With funereal slow the pendulum | N |
Brutally sounds the hour of noon | A |
And heaven pours the night too soon | A |
On the sad world forlorn and numb | N |
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Opening eyes replete with fire | M |
Once in my sunless room again | A |
And feel re entering in my brain | A |
The fang of cares accursed and dire | M |
Clark Ashton Smith
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