The Balance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAACCA DEEDDE| The world upheld their pillars for awhile | A |
| Now where imperial On and Carthage stood | B |
| The hot wind sifts across the solitude | C |
| The sand that once was wall and peristyle | A |
| Or furrows like the main each tawny mile | A |
| Where ocean deep above its ancient food | C |
| Of cities fame forgot the waste is nude | C |
| Traceless as billows of each sunken pile | A |
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| Lo for that wrong shall vengeance come at last | D |
| When the devouring earth in ruin one | E |
| With royal walls and palaces undone | E |
| In dust far blown from the orbit of the past | D |
| Shall drift and winds that wrangle through the vast | D |
| Immingle it with ashes of the sun | E |
Clark Ashton Smith
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