Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCABDDEAAAFFGDGHAH AIIJJFFDAADF| Thy shadow falls on the fount | A |
| On the fount with the marble wall | B |
| And in alien time and space | C |
| On the towns of a doom d race | C |
| The shadows of glaciers mount | A |
| And patchouli shadows crawl | B |
| On the mottling of boas that bask | D |
| In the fire of a moon fantasque | D |
| And the light shades of bamboo | E |
| Flutter and ruffle and lift | A |
| In the silver dawn they sift | A |
| On the meadows of Xanadu | A |
| They shall fall till the light be done | F |
| By moon and cresset and sun | F |
| From gnomon and fir tree and throne | G |
| And the vine caught monoliths leaning | D |
| In the woods of a world far flown | G |
| They shall pass on the dim star dials | H |
| By the peoples of Pluto wrought | A |
| They shall follow the shifted vials | H |
| Of a sorceress of Fomalhaut | A |
| They shall move on the primal plains | I |
| In the broken thunder and rains | I |
| They shall haply reel and soar | J |
| Where the red volcanoes roar | J |
| From the peaks of a blackening sun | F |
| They shall haply float and run | F |
| From the tails of the lyre birds preening | D |
| On the palms of a magic mead | A |
| And their mystery none shall read | A |
| And none shall have known their meaning | D |
| Ere night and the shadows are one | F |
Clark Ashton Smith
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