The Blindness Of Orion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQERL DKSTCUVWXYZA2B2UC2D2

So blind Orion groping for the mornA
With eyes uplift whereon forever hungB
Infinite burden and suspense of nightC
Had clomb the long and mountain ending vastD
Led by the Cyclops Many a dim ravineE
Where serried pines were silent ere the dawnF
And many a slope or terrace of the snowG
Pure as Pentelic marble for the treadH
Of roseal footed light lay far behindI
Still drowned in stagnant purples Toiling upJ
Even to the very threshold of the heavensK
They heard the ascending eagles hail the sunL
Round the forsaken throne of PhosphorusM
Until the morning's levin colored rayN
Lightened upon the Cyclops and he pausedO
And over him ethereal glory draveP
To rouse the dreaming colors in the cloudQ
To give the sea its immemorial greenE
And strike the towering cities into goldR
Along the low horizonL
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Then at lastD
On dark Orion groping for the sunsK
From out the sole the Appollonian sourceS
Returning vision flowed and he had powerT
And privilege once more upon the lightC
And might receive its seven ministersU
Even with gathering rays of stars remoteV
And take the tithe of beauty proffered stillW
By terrene shapes and images by formsX
Of flowers and statues and of women dancingY
Of sapling laurels ancient olives gnarledZ
The noontide shapes of headlands and of cloudsA2
The meres that curve in darkening amaranthB2
Amid the sunset range and seas and riversU
Straight tided or with currents serpentineC2
Dividing variously their protean shoresD2

Clark Ashton Smith



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