Said The Dreamer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GGHG IIJI IIII FFKF IIIL| My dreams were nests of horror whimsey wrought | A |
| With orts and shreds from old abysses brought | A |
| Were eyries built by condor wing d awe | B |
| Enskied on somber pinnacles of thought | A |
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| Fantastical I saw the visions shift | C |
| Like bubbIes that a Titan's breath might lift | C |
| Drowning in seas more deep than his despair | D |
| Iron coIored soon to shatter or to drift | C |
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| Or like illumined crystals fallen from hands | E |
| Of gods that cloud interiorly with lands | E |
| Of wider spheres exalted past the sun | F |
| Or burst while thought in idle question stands | E |
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| Conscious of gulfs in which I dared not gaze | G |
| I passed on faltering and imperilled ways | G |
| Through lands where hoary mountains danced and roared | H |
| To baleful pygmies piping hellish lays | G |
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| The flames that wait against the end of things | I |
| Were light and limit to my wanderings | I |
| Through deserts bleaching like the bones of death | J |
| Aback I fled and faltered on spent wings | I |
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| In night Cimmerian thronged with sorceries | I |
| Where lightnings flamed on empty sands and seas | I |
| Or feared the leopard crouch of pallid shapes | I |
| In Saracenic arches of black trees | I |
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| Then in the dream I dreamt that Time was done | F |
| Light still endured whose touch I might not shun | F |
| Though at my back I heard the lips of Night | K |
| Puff out the flaring flambeau of the sun | F |
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| I leaned from some black precipice to see | I |
| The pits beneath One came not far from me | I |
| To hurled therein the sockets of the stars | I |
| And shells of worlds that rattled emptily | L |
Clark Ashton Smith
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