The Blindness Of Orion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQERL DKSTCUVWXYZA2B2UC2D2So blind Orion groping for the morn | A |
With eyes uplift whereon forever hung | B |
Infinite burden and suspense of night | C |
Had clomb the long and mountain ending vast | D |
Led by the Cyclops Many a dim ravine | E |
Where serried pines were silent ere the dawn | F |
And many a slope or terrace of the snow | G |
Pure as Pentelic marble for the tread | H |
Of roseal footed light lay far behind | I |
Still drowned in stagnant purples Toiling up | J |
Even to the very threshold of the heavens | K |
They heard the ascending eagles hail the sun | L |
Round the forsaken throne of Phosphorus | M |
Until the morning's levin colored ray | N |
Lightened upon the Cyclops and he paused | O |
And over him ethereal glory drave | P |
To rouse the dreaming colors in the cloud | Q |
To give the sea its immemorial green | E |
And strike the towering cities into gold | R |
Along the low horizon | L |
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Then at last | D |
On dark Orion groping for the suns | K |
From out the sole the Appollonian source | S |
Returning vision flowed and he had power | T |
And privilege once more upon the light | C |
And might receive its seven ministers | U |
Even with gathering rays of stars remote | V |
And take the tithe of beauty proffered still | W |
By terrene shapes and images by forms | X |
Of flowers and statues and of women dancing | Y |
Of sapling laurels ancient olives gnarled | Z |
The noontide shapes of headlands and of clouds | A2 |
The meres that curve in darkening amaranth | B2 |
Amid the sunset range and seas and rivers | U |
Straight tided or with currents serpentine | C2 |
Dividing variously their protean shores | D2 |
Clark Ashton Smith
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