Requiescat In Pace (m.l.m.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEEF GHHI JKKL MNNO PQQR STTU ABBC| White iris on thy bier | A |
| With the white rose we strew | B |
| And lotus pale or blue | B |
| As moonlight on the orient mountain snows | C |
| - | |
| Slumber as they that sleep | D |
| In the slow sands unknown | E |
| Or under seas that zone | E |
| With lulling foam the sealed extremer lands | F |
| - | |
| Slumber with songless birds | G |
| That sang and sang to death | H |
| Giving their gladder breath | H |
| To lonely winds in one melodious pang | I |
| - | |
| Sleep with the golden queens | J |
| Of planets long forgot | K |
| Whose fire soft lips are not | K |
| Recalled by any sorcery of song | L |
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| Sleep with the towers that were | M |
| And any leaf that fell | N |
| On field or flowerless dell | N |
| In autumns lost of memory and grief | O |
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| Pass with the music town | P |
| From ivory lyre and lute | Q |
| Of mellow string left mute | Q |
| In cities desolate ere the dream of Tyre | R |
| - | |
| Pass with the clouds that sank | S |
| In sunset turned to grey | T |
| On some Edenic day | T |
| For which the exiled years have ever yearned | U |
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| White iris on thy bier | A |
| With the white rose we strew | B |
| And lotus pale or blue | B |
| As moonlight on the orient mountain snows | C |
Clark Ashton Smith
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