The Envoys Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDE FEGFCHH IJJICCC CHHCKLL MCCMLDD HEEHLLL| None other saw them when they came | A |
| Across the many clangored mart | B |
| But in mine eyes and in my heart | B |
| They passed as might the pillared flame | A |
| Of lightning loosened on the tombs | C |
| Or errant suns that wander by | D |
| To dawn on the Cimmerii | E |
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| Great monarchs proud and cypress tall | F |
| With zones and crowns of argentry | E |
| They were who proffered royally | G |
| Full urns of pulsing gems to all | F |
| The blood warm gems of lunar wombs | C |
| Pale ores and opals pavonine | H |
| And beryls like to leopards' eyne | H |
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| Their eyes were lit with alien day | I |
| Were filled of alien worlds their feet | J |
| With starry splendors paved the street | J |
| And silver dust of some bright way | I |
| Fell from their garments with perfumes | C |
| More strange than breath of vernal gales | C |
| From Saturn's moly cinctured vales | C |
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| What embassy were they from suns | C |
| Of Algebar or Capricorn | H |
| From planets of remoter morn | H |
| In flaming fields where Taurus runs | C |
| Or haplycome immediate | K |
| From out a four dimensioned world | L |
| Within the occlusive ether furled | L |
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| They strode upon the swooning pave | M |
| They towered by the trembling spires | C |
| Tall as apocalyptic fires | C |
| Above the peoples of the grave | M |
| But sightless and inveterate | L |
| To Mammon vowed the throng went by | D |
| Charneled beneath an iron sky | D |
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| Yea blinder than the steel and stone | H |
| Men took not from their proffered store | E |
| One gift of all the gifts they bore | E |
| But sued for gold to gods foreknown | H |
| I too bemused inebriate | L |
| Amort with splendor could but stand | L |
| And see them pass with empty hand | L |
Clark Ashton Smith
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