The Chimera Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFE GHG| O who will slay the last chimera Time | A |
| Though Love and Death have many a cunning dart | B |
| In spite of these and close wrought webs of Art | B |
| And Slumber with a slow Lethean lime | A |
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| Still still he lives and though thy feet attain | C |
| The lunar peaks of ice and crystal he | D |
| Some night of agonized eternity | D |
| With brazen teeth shall gnaw thy fettered brain | C |
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| Gorged with the dust of thrones and fanes destroyed | E |
| With lidless eyes like moons of adamant | F |
| And vaulted mouth emportalling the void | E |
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| He crouches like a passive sphinx before | G |
| Some temple gate or grinning moves to grant | H |
| Thine entrance at the monarch's golden door | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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