Rêve Parisian Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FAAF GHHG IJJI HGGH HHHH KGHL MHLG AGGA AGGA MAAG HAAH NAAN MAAM

The memory of this dread demesneA
Unknown unsought by mortal eyesB
That morning like some glad surpriseB
Returns insistent dimly seenA
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What marvels fill the gulf of sleepC
By some bizarre capriceD
From all my dream the grass the treesE
Are banished in the oblivious deepC
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And I tho' sculptor of a worldF
Of superbly tasteful monotoneA
Of metal water metal flame and stoneA
At mine enchanted will unfurledF
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Babel of stairs and of arcadesG
There stands a palace infiniteH
Where fountains fall in chrysoliteH
On the dull gold of long estradesG
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And from the ramparts far and highI
Enormous cataracts have sprungJ
Like heavy crystal curtains hungJ
On the huge walls within the skyI
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No blooms nor bower but pools enchantedH
Where lies the columns' mirrored friezeG
By the titanic naiadesG
Of pale and marble hauntedH
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Blue waters endlessly are whirledH
Between the quays of malachiteH
And quays of rose that stretch for lightH
A thousand leagues athwart the worldH
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A world of magic mineralK
And magic billow Shore and seaG
In dazzling cold immensityH
Redoubling and reflecting allL
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An architect of Fa ryM
I make with runes softly murmuredH
A cavern wrought of rubacelleL
That passes neath the conquered seaG
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And all things pale or sable shineA
Like furbished armour flaming spacesG
Of land a flaming gulf enchasesG
Immured in splendour crystallineA
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No star has passed no sun has flownA
To climb the adamantine skiesG
Illuming these prodigiesG
That burn with lazy beams all their ownA
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And on this form of grammerieM
In even beat lies O dread demesneA
Where naught is heard and all is seenA
The silence of eternityG
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In silence frozen the vault beyondH
Great rivers negligently turnA
The treasure of teeming urnA
Adown the gulfs of diamondH
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With funereal slow the pendulumN
Brutally sounds the hour of noonA
And heaven pours the night too soonA
On the sad world forlorn and numbN
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Opening eyes replete with fireM
Once in my sunless room againA
And feel re entering in my brainA
The fang of cares accursed and direM

Clark Ashton Smith



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