The Cloud-islands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA ACACA DEDED FAFAF GHGHG| What islands marvellous are these | A |
| That gem the sunset's tides of light | B |
| Opals aglow in saffron seas | A |
| How beautiful they lie and bright | B |
| Like some new found Hesperides | A |
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| What varied changing magic hues | A |
| Tint gorgeously each shore and hill | C |
| What blazing vivid golds and blues | A |
| Their seaward winding valleys fill | C |
| What amethysts their peaks suffuse | A |
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| Close held by curving arms of land | D |
| That out within the ocean reach | E |
| I mark a faery city stand | D |
| Set high upon a sloping beach | E |
| That burns with fire of shimmering sand | D |
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| Of sunset light is formed each wall | F |
| Each dome a rainbow bubble seems | A |
| And every spire that towers tall | F |
| A ray of golden moonlight gleams | A |
| Of opal flame is every hall | F |
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| Alas how quickly dims their glow | G |
| What veils their dreamy splendours mar | H |
| Like broken dreams the islands go | G |
| As down from strands of cloud and star | H |
| The sinking tides of daylight flow | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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