The City Of Destruction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FG DH IA FJ DD FK LM ID NO| A Fragment | A |
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| The incognizable kings of Night within their unrevealed abyss | B |
| Have built them a metropolis against the kingdoms of the light | C |
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| Its mountain passing ramparts climb exalted from the nadir flats | D |
| In black Babelian ziggurats that tier the dusk of nether time | E |
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| Prodigious dire and indistinct with horns that lift the heavens' doom | F |
| Its turrets crowd the skyless gloom huge as the night of hells extinct | G |
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| The hostile gulfs for armor wear its walls as of a thousand Romes | D |
| The swollen menace of its domes enhelms the swart inimic air | H |
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| The Powers to darkness ministrant have fortressed them supremely well | I |
| Building their dreadful citadel with massed eternal adamant | A |
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| Quarried from the core entire of suns that night and ice entomb | F |
| Their secret furnaces relume the stone that once was stellar fire | J |
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| The monstrous lamps of Death and Mars like demon moons emblaze their halls | D |
| The watch fires on the infernal walls flame like a crown of fallen stars | D |
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| From out the sunken courts resound colossal engineries of doom | F |
| Some slow malign tremendous loom dismally rumbles underground | K |
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| Loud shuttles clack implacably unknown machines with clangorous ire | L |
| Beat in their hearts of throbbing fire the instants of eternity | M |
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| The crooked arms of titan cranes with grasp Briarean momently | I |
| Lift to the dim Tartarean sky a nameless freight in stretch d chains | D |
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| And Acheronian waters roar constrained relentless subterrene | N |
| Where at their evil toil unseen the hellish wheels moan evermore | O |
Clark Ashton Smith
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