Satan Unrepentant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJAK KLMANKOKPGQRS KKTKUSKVWXYZA2KB2NC2 D2 KUE2IKKF2KF2KKG2H2SI 2KAKSJ2KZK2L2KSM2SN OOKKN2O2DK2P2Q2KKKSR 2S2T2U2OV2OW2FYN2Lost 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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