Reverie In August Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DEFD GHHI JKLJ MNNO| The heat is like some drowsy drug | A |
| Laden with honey foundered dreams | B |
| Again the pagan forest seems | B |
| To couch and roof our pagan love | C |
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| Alone I wait but not alone | D |
| For something of you lingers yet | E |
| Something returns and subtly tells | F |
| Of all the beauty made our own | D |
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| Across the days that intervene | G |
| I breathe the fragrance of your hair | H |
| One with the pine embalsamed air | H |
| Its warm oblivion covers me | I |
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| Again some gently murmured word | J |
| Lights the great fire in my blood | K |
| Till rapture like a singing sun | L |
| Is in the riven spirit stirred | J |
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| And leaning thirstily and fain | M |
| On earth and air that burn with drouth | N |
| I find again your pagan mouth | N |
| Half palpable like dreams that fade | O |
Clark Ashton Smith
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