Some Blind Eidolon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCBC DDEFFEF GGHGGHG IJKJJKJ JJJGGJG LLGMMGM| Longer ago than Eden's oldest morn | A |
| Ere beast or man was born | A |
| I chose for mine | B |
| The love whereto some ancient evil clings | C |
| With sombre spectra barring still the wings | C |
| That wear the irised flame of suns divine | B |
| The love whereto some ancient evil clings | C |
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| Down all the planet paven ways of time | D |
| Lengthening from the prime | D |
| A shadow falls | E |
| A thing that climbs the pharos guarded gates | F |
| Or by the wizard's dying brazier waits | F |
| Or lairs amid the many tapered halls | E |
| A thing that climbs the pharos guarded gates | F |
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| Have we not known O witch O queen O maid | G |
| The stain that creeps unstayed | G |
| In love's alloy | H |
| The fretful moth that frays the bed of lust | G |
| The wingless and unweariable disgust | G |
| That overtakes the philtre goaded joy | H |
| The fretful moth that frays the bed of lust | G |
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| Though proud as gardened Babylon our bliss | I |
| Mortal corruption is | J |
| The seed self sown | K |
| Amid the rampant flowers and the founts | J |
| The laughter of some blind eidolon mounts | J |
| Where the self deluded mourner sobs alone | K |
| Amid the ruined flowers and the founts | J |
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| Dark loves of all the vanished avatars | J |
| What candor heated stars | J |
| What crimson hells | J |
| Consumed us long ago but cleansed us not | G |
| Nor could absolve us of the sombre blot | G |
| Yea all the Moloch hearted suns and hells | J |
| Consumed us long ago but cleansed us not | G |
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| Where limbos of unfathomed ice immure | L |
| Shall yet we couch secure | L |
| Our sundered day | G |
| What sea wherein the unshapen planets sleep | M |
| Shall make us one in its potential deep | M |
| Washing the lethal dross of self away | G |
| What sea wherein the unshapen planets sleep | M |
Clark Ashton Smith
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