Revenant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDBEEFFGHHIGBJDDJ KKDGKBG DKBDBBLDLDIDMDNIBNDK KBBDBBB| I am the spectre who returns | A |
| Unto some desolate world in min borne afar | B |
| On the black flowing of Lethean skies | C |
| Ever I search in cryptic galleries | D |
| The void sarcophagi the broken urns | D |
| Of many a vanished avatar | B |
| Or haunt the gloom of crumbling pylons vast | E |
| In temples that enshrine the shadowy past | E |
| Viewless impalpable and fleet | F |
| I roam stupendous avenues and greet | F |
| Familiar sphinxes carved from everlasting stone | G |
| Or the fair brittle gods of long ago | H |
| Decayed and fallen low | H |
| And there I mark the tail clepsammiae | I |
| That time has overthrown | G |
| And empty clepsydrae | B |
| And dials drowned in umbrage never lifting | J |
| And there on rusty parapegms | D |
| I read the ephemerides | D |
| Of antique stars and eider planets drifting | J |
| Oblivionward in night | K |
| And there with purples of the tomb bedlight | K |
| And crowned with funereal gems | D |
| I bold awhile the throne | G |
| Whereon mine immemorial selves have sate | K |
| Canopied by the triple tinted glory | B |
| Of the three suns forever paled and flown | G |
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| I am the spectre who returns | D |
| And dwells content with his forlorn estate | K |
| In mansions lost and hoary | B |
| Where no lamp burns | D |
| Who trysts within the sepulchre | B |
| And finds the ancient shadows lovelier | B |
| Than gardens all emblazed with sevenfold noon | L |
| Or topaz builded towers | D |
| That throng below some iris pouring moon | L |
| Exiled and homeless in the younger stars | D |
| Henceforth I shah inhabit that grey clime | I |
| Whose days belong to primal calendars | D |
| Nor would I come again | M |
| Back to the garish terrene hours | D |
| For I am free of vaults unfathomable | N |
| And treasures lost from time | I |
| With bat and vampire there | B |
| I fit through sombre skies immeasurable | N |
| Or fly adown the unending subterranes | D |
| Mummied and ceremented | K |
| I sit in councils of the kingly dead | K |
| And oftentimes for vestiture I wear | B |
| The granite of great idols looming darkly | B |
| In atlantean fanes | D |
| Or closely now and starkly | B |
| I ding as dings the attenuating air | B |
| About the ruins bare | B |
Clark Ashton Smith
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