The Centaur Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DED AFAAAG AAHHAA| I belong to those manifold Existences | A |
| Once known or once suspected | B |
| That exist no more for man | C |
| - | |
| Was it not well to flee | D |
| Into the boundless realms of legend | E |
| Lest man should bridle me | D |
| - | |
| Sometimes I am glimpsed by poets | A |
| Whose eyes have not been blinded | F |
| By the hell bright lamps of cities | A |
| Who have not sent their souls | A |
| To be devoured by robot minotaurs | A |
| In the infamous Labyrinths of steel and mortar | G |
| - | |
| I know the freedom of fantastic things | A |
| Ranging in fantasy | A |
| I leap and bound and run | H |
| Below another sun | H |
| Was it not well to flee | A |
| Long long ago lest man should bridle me | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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