The Ancient Quest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC AEEA FGGF HFFH| O giant stars born of eternal light | A |
| O winged flames wherewith the void is sown | B |
| As dreadful prophets of a God unknown | B |
| Ye speak the law in light | A |
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| Had we but sight to see and comprehend | C |
| Your countless fires were as a language plain | D |
| To tell us all that we have sought in vain | D |
| The quest were at an end | C |
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| O younger worlds whose tireless pinioned flight | A |
| Climbs eagerly the sheer and topless deep | E |
| O shrivelled planets that obscurely creep | E |
| On orbits sunk in night | A |
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| Alike ye falter in unceasing gloom | F |
| That shrouds the deathless Truth ye may not find | G |
| Alike for ye the flaming suns are blind | G |
| And light may not illume | F |
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| For Life whose God ambitious eyes would see | H |
| The stallar manifested truth sublime | F |
| Must gaze with sight immutable as Time | F |
| Large as Infinity | H |
Clark Ashton Smith
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