Strange Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GBBG HIIH JKKJ LMMN LOOL PQQP RSSR| What bond was this of life or doom | A |
| That swiftly drew your eyes to mine | B |
| Beyond the drinkers and the wine | B |
| Across the crowded garish room | A |
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| Beauty was yours but beauty lost | C |
| Bringing to that familiar bar | D |
| The lustre of a fallen star | D |
| On strands of night and chaos tossed | C |
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| O yours were soft unhappy lips | E |
| O yours were hard unhappy eyes | F |
| Like agates under glacial skies | F |
| Laden with tempest and eclipse | E |
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| Upon the delicate chin you turned | G |
| Venus had set her cloven sign | B |
| Like embers seen through darkest wine | B |
| Your unextinguished tresses burned | G |
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| Your gown revealed that gracious form | H |
| Tanagra's sculptors loved to mould | I |
| In day immortal from of old | I |
| With limbs for ever sweet and warm | H |
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| Of what we spoke it matters not | J |
| For in your wistful voice I heard | K |
| What hidden things that found no word | K |
| Broken half dreamed or half forgot | J |
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| Girlishly half maternally | L |
| You chid me for the fault we shared | M |
| Your voice was sweet your eyes despaired | M |
| It was your eyes that wounded me | N |
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| So bleak they were so wan and chill | L |
| Like eyes that meet the Gorgon's gaze | O |
| Amid the untraversable maze | O |
| Of all reverting shame and ill | L |
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| But when you leaned to kiss me there | P |
| It seemed some fragile moth of night | Q |
| Had softly touched my lips in flight | Q |
| Swerving athwart the untroubled air | P |
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| Sister you seemed to all the woe | R |
| My heart has known but never sung | S |
| Was it for this your fingers clung | S |
| To mine as loath to let me go | R |
Clark Ashton Smith
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