Satan Unrepentant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJAK KLMANKOKPGQRS KKTKUSKVWXYZA2KB2NC2 D2 KUE2IKKF2KF2KKG2H2SI 2KAKSJ2KZK2L2KSM2SN OOKKN2O2DK2P2Q2KKKSR 2S2T2U2OV2OW2FYN2| Lost from those archangelic thrones that star | A |
| Fadeless and fixed heaven's light of azure bliss | B |
| Forbanned of all His splendor and depressed | C |
| Beyond the birth of the first sun and lower | D |
| Than the last star's decline I still endure | E |
| Abased majestic fallen beautiful | F |
| And unregretful in the doubted dark | G |
| Throneless that greatens chaos ward albeit | H |
| From chanting stars that throng the nave of night | I |
| Lost echoes wander here and of His praise | J |
| With ringing moons for cymbals dinned afar | A |
| And shouted from the flaming mouths of suns | K |
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| The shadows of impalpable blank deeps | K |
| Deep upon deep accumulate close down | L |
| Around my head concentered while above | M |
| In the lit loftier blue star after star | A |
| Spins endless orbits betwixt me and heaven | N |
| And at my feet mysterious Chaos breaks | K |
| Abrupt immeasurable Round His throne | O |
| Throbs now the rhythmic resonance of suns | K |
| Incessant perfect music infinite | P |
| I throneless hear the discords of the dark | G |
| And roar of ruin uncreate than which | Q |
| Some vast cacophony of dragons heard | R |
| In wasted worlds were purer melody | S |
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| The universe His tyranny constrains | K |
| Turns on in old and consummated gulfs | K |
| The stars that wield His judgement wait at hand | T |
| And in new deeps Apocalyptic suns | K |
| Prepare His corning lo His mighty whim | U |
| To rear and mar goes forth enormously | S |
| In nights and constellations Darkness hears | K |
| Enrag d suns that bellow down the deep | V |
| God's ravenous and insatiable will | W |
| And He is strong with change and rideth forth | X |
| In whirlwind clothed with thunders and with doom | Y |
| To the red stars God's throne is reared of change | Z |
| Its myriad and successive hands support | A2 |
| Like music His omnipotence that fails | K |
| If mercy or if justice interrupt | B2 |
| The sequence of that tyranny begun | N |
| Upon injustice and doomed evermore | C2 |
| To stand thereby | D2 |
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| I who with will not less | K |
| Than His but lesser strength opposed to Him | U |
| This unsubmissive brow and lifted mind | E2 |
| He holds remote in nullity and night | I |
| Doubtful between old Chaos and the deeps | K |
| Betrayed by Time to vassalage Methinks | K |
| All tyrants fear whom they may not destroy | F2 |
| And I that am of essence one with His | K |
| Though less in measure He may not destroy | F2 |
| And but withstands in gulfs of dark suspense | K |
| A secret dread for ever for God knows | K |
| This quiet will irrevocably set | G2 |
| Against His own and this my prime revolt | H2 |
| Yet stubborn and confirmed eternally | S |
| And with the hatred born of fear and fed | I2 |
| Ever thereby God hates me and His gaze | K |
| Sees the bright menace of mine eyes afar | A |
| Through midnight and the innumerable blaze | K |
| Of servile suns lo strong in tyranny | S |
| The despot trembles that I stand opposed | J2 |
| For fain am I to hush the anguished cries | K |
| Of Substance broken on the racks of change | Z |
| Of Matter tortured into life and God | K2 |
| Knowing this dreads evermore some huge mishap | L2 |
| That in the vigils of Omnipotence | K |
| Once careless I shall enter heaven or He | S |
| Himself with weight of some unwonted act | M2 |
| Thoughtless perturb His balanced tyranny | S |
| To mine advance of watchful aspiration | N |
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| With rumored thunder and enormous groan | O |
| Burden of sound that heavens overborne | O |
| Let slip from deep to deep even to this | K |
| Where climb the huge cacophonies of Chaos | K |
| God's universe moves on Confirmed in pride | N2 |
| In patient majesty serene and strong | O2 |
| I wait the dreamt inevitable hour | D |
| Fulfilled of orbits ultimate when God | K2 |
| Whether through His mischance or mine own deed | P2 |
| Or rise of other and extremer Strength | Q2 |
| Shall vanish and the lightened universe | K |
| No more remember Him than Silence does | K |
| An ancient thunder I know not if these | K |
| Mine all indomitable eyes shall see | S |
| A maimed and dwindled Godhead cast among | R2 |
| The stars of His creating and beneath | S2 |
| The unnumbered rush of swift and shining feet | T2 |
| Trodden into night or mark the fiery breath | U2 |
| Of His infuriate suns blaze forth upon | O |
| And scorch that coarsened Essence or His flame | V2 |
| A mightier comet roar and redden down | O |
| Portentous unto Chaos I but wait | W2 |
| In strong majestic patience equable | F |
| That hour of consummation and of doom | Y |
| Of justice and rebellion justified | N2 |
Clark Ashton Smith
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