Spectral Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE CEFCGH IJCCKL CCCMNC OCCCCH HPQCCA| I was a long while an ancient phantom | A |
| Floating light as an aroma | B |
| Around mine ancient tombs | C |
| And over mausoleums | C |
| Upborne by winged women | D |
| On their backs of strange mineral | E |
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| I have met pale queens | C |
| And nymphs a little spectral | E |
| Whom I have known in some antiquity | F |
| Remoter than the far off spheres | C |
| I have breathed the spectres vain | G |
| Of roses dead for many a year | H |
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| I have dwelt upon an earth | I |
| That was no more than ashes and dust | J |
| With the flowers of withered autumns | C |
| Amid the unflowing shadows | C |
| I have known exiguous and stagnant | K |
| The stench of gods decayed | L |
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| My nights were nights long overpasts | C |
| Were nights with frosted moons | C |
| And my days were all dark yesterdays | C |
| The things long lost | M |
| And remembrances confused | N |
| Appeared to me in these sojourns | C |
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| Hearing the fragile speech | O |
| The wailings of shrill voices | C |
| Of vampires wholly bloodless | C |
| I have found no more than distress | C |
| Feeble and dim a sadness | C |
| That had nor taste nor perfume nor colour | H |
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| And of this life I have grown weary | H |
| And I have envied the living | P |
| Therefore behold me now | Q |
| Supporting a body like others | C |
| bearing a heart like yours | C |
| A very tangible phantom | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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