Shapes In The Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFBD CFFG FFFF HDFF IJKF FBFD CAD| Daylong was my slumber At the sunset | A |
| Wakening I beheld the clouds a hundred | B |
| Shapes of antic gods and beasts of wonder | C |
| Gathered on the horizon | D |
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| Vulcan with his forge behind him towered | E |
| Greaved with aureate fire against the boundless | F |
| Concave west and whirling Scylla spouted | B |
| Purple spray on Triton | D |
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| There with gaping mouth the Mantichora | C |
| Showed his teeth and uttered silent roarings | F |
| Light and silky as thistle down the Astomians | F |
| Came from lands of marvel | G |
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| Wafted on their ether and the headless | F |
| People followed after them the Blemmyes | F |
| Searing on humped shoulders through the heavens | F |
| Their enormous fardels | F |
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| There across dismembered Titans crawling | H |
| Python rolled his volumes there the Gorgon | D |
| Eyed with blinding gold through rack amorphous | F |
| Trailed her sinuous ringlets | F |
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| There with skyward soles with head inverted | I |
| Hung the Sciapod torn from his earthy | J |
| Plot remote and swam the cod tailed Mermaid | K |
| From the surges rivers | F |
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| While the sunset deepening and rubious | F |
| Limned the bestiary shapes in lurid | B |
| Salamandrine hues and robed with murex | F |
| Gods from myths forgotten | D |
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| I the watcher cried 'O clouds of wonder | C |
| Fables carry me where an age long sunset | A |
| Arches your lost Thule by no sullen | D |
| Earth born shadows blotted ' | - |
Clark Ashton Smith
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