Remembered Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGBHIJKIIIIHIIL ICMIMHNHM IIHHHB| The years are a falling of snow | A |
| Slow but without cessation | B |
| On hills and mountains and towers and worlds that were | C |
| But snow and the crawling night wherein it fell | D |
| May be washed away in one swifter hour of flame | E |
| Thus it was that some slant of sunset | F |
| In the chasms of pil d cloud | G |
| Transient mountains that made a new horizon | B |
| Uplifting the west to fantastic pinnacles | H |
| Smote warm in a buried realm of the spirit | I |
| Till the snows of forgetfulness were gone | J |
| Clear in the vistas of memory | K |
| The peaks of a world long unremembered | I |
| Soared further than clouds but fell not | I |
| Based on hills that shook not nor melted | I |
| With that burden enormous hardly to be believed | I |
| Rent with stupendous chasms | H |
| Full of an umber twilight | I |
| I beheld that larger world | I |
| Bright was the twilight clear like ethereal wine | L |
| Above but low in the clefts it thickened | I |
| Dull as with duskier tincture | C |
| Like whimsical wings outspread but unstirring | M |
| Flowers that seemed spirits of the twilight | I |
| That must pass with its passing | M |
| Too fragile for day or for darkness | H |
| Fed the dusk with more delicate hues than its own | N |
| Stars that were nearer more radiant than ours | H |
| Quivered and pulsed in the clear thin gold of the sky | M |
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| These things I beheld | I |
| Till the gold was shaken with tight | I |
| Of fantastical wings like broken shadows | H |
| Forerunning the darkness | H |
| Till the twilight shivered with outcry of eldritch voices | H |
| Like pain's last cry ere oblivion | B |
Clark Ashton Smith
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