Sphinx And Medusa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBC DEFDEF

The old constraint of an essential bondA
Hath linkt them in my mind opposed they stareB
Twin silences that through Time's OtherwhereB
The ruinous past thus each to each respondA
One with mysterious gaze that sees beyondA
The straining suns calm as the voidness thereB
And one with eyes like deserts of despairB
Flameless as granite clear as diamondC
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They gaze across the past Yet thought must seeD
That eve of time when man no longer yearnsE
Grown deaf before Life's Sphinx whose lips are barredF
When from the spaces of EternityD
Silence a rigorous Medusa turnsE
On the lost world the stress of her regardF

Clark Ashton Smith



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