The Flight Of Azrael Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEFGHIJKL B MNOPFFQRIKSTUVFWSXMY PZA2G| Scene an immense and darkling plain remotely lit by the sunset of the last day Two demons passing from the interstellar deep have paused on an isolated hill top | A |
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| First Demon | B |
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| What world is this all desolate and dim | C |
| Under the lone phantasmagoric heavens | D |
| Great with the hanging night Yon luminance | E |
| Is lurid as the Furnace glare of hell | F |
| Seen from the contiguity of gloom | G |
| Of a Cimmerian region All the air | H |
| Flags heavily as beneath the weight of wings | I |
| Invisible and evil from the plain | J |
| No movement save of shadows mustering | K |
| Behind the heels of day | L |
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| Second Demon | B |
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| It is the Earth | M |
| A hoary planet old in wrath and woe | N |
| As any hell Red pestilence and war | O |
| Have now refunded to the usuring wind | P |
| The breath of all its peoples Azrael | F |
| Delivering now the town and necropole | F |
| To one decay in night's abysmal vault | Q |
| Prepares him for departure From afar | R |
| Seest thou not the towering of his wings | I |
| Like thunder on the sunset Widening | K |
| Those vans involve and stifle half the light | S |
| With bat like folds and ribs on the further stars | T |
| Or worlds unknown of the outer infinite | U |
| He now intends the darkness of his course | V |
| On Algol's planets haply poised he will | F |
| Make permanent the sable sun's eclipse | W |
| Or round some vast Antarean satellite | S |
| His shadowed arc will broaden to a sphere | X |
| Oblivion's black and perfect globe On Earth | M |
| He comes no more the very worms have died | Y |
| In the scarce nibbled carrion the thin wind | P |
| Will write man's epitaph in shifting sand | Z |
| And the pale unfading arabesques of frost | A2 |
| Adorn and fret his ghoul forgotten tomb | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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