Semblance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA CDDCC EFFEE GHHGG DDDDD| Love was the flight of a crimson bird | A |
| Across the forest of your soul | B |
| Where cypress leaf and cypress bole | B |
| By mordant airs of autumn stirred | A |
| Sigh with a long and sea like word | A |
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| Joy was the burning heart red bloom | C |
| A fair and wandering witch let fall | D |
| At twilight from her coronal | D |
| Where mottling ivies mesh the tomb | C |
| Lost in a laurel given gloom | C |
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| Time is the drip of fountain spray | E |
| Upon the unbroken sword you flung | F |
| Amid the pouting poppies young | F |
| In a lost garden far away | E |
| Where the white girls of Circe lay | E |
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| Life is a house of painted stone | G |
| Reflected in a sunless lake | H |
| Where drowning domes and turrets shake | H |
| In the black winds for ever blown | G |
| From shoreless tides no sail has known | G |
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| Grief is the mirror builded hall | D |
| Wherein you roam eternally | D |
| Seeking the ghost you shall not see | D |
| In sorrow half sardonical | D |
| And meet yourself at every wall | D |
Clark Ashton Smith
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